Changeset e88fbe27 for doc

Timestamp:

2010-04-15T23:10:10Z (15 years ago)

Author:

Wilmer van der Gaast <wilmer@…>

Branches:

master

Children:

55b1e69

Parents:

f9ed311

Message:

Added a meta-contact twitter_$username and replaced the "use_groupchat"
setting with a "mode" setting which also allows for a mode where everything
just comes from the meta-contact. Tweets should now go to that user or to
the channel (if available). Messages to others become DMs.

File:

• doc/user-guide/commands.xml (modified) (4 diffs)

doc/user-guide/commands.xml

@@ -21 +21 @@
                         <description>
                                 <para>
-                                        Adds an account on the given server with the specified protocol, username and password to the account list. Supported protocols right now are: Jabber, MSN, OSCAR (AIM/ICQ) and Yahoo. For more information about adding an account, see <emphasis>help account add &lt;protocol&gt;</emphasis>.
+                                        Adds an account on the given server with the specified protocol, username and password to the account list. Supported protocols right now are: Jabber, MSN, OSCAR (AIM/ICQ), Yahoo and Twitter. For more information about adding an account, see <emphasis>help account add &lt;protocol&gt;</emphasis>.
                                 </para>
                         </description>
@@ -73 +73 @@
                                         
                                         <para>
-                                                By default all your Twitter contacts will show up in your contact list and their tweets will show up as private messages or in &amp;bitlbee depending on your settings. If you want them in a separate channel, use the use_groupchat setting (see <emphasis>help set use_groupchat</emphasis>).
+                                                By default all your Twitter contacts will come from a contact called twitter_(yourusername). You can change this behaviour using the <emphasis>mode</emphasis> setting (see <emphasis>help set mode</emphasis>).
                                         </para>
                                         
                                         <para>
-                                                To send tweets yourself, send them to any of your Twitter contacts via /query (doesn't matter who), or just write in the groupchat channel if you enabled that option.
+                                                To send tweets yourself, send them to the twitter_(yourusername) contact, or just write in the groupchat channel if you enabled that option.
                                         </para>
                                 </description>
@@ -659 +659 @@
         </bitlbee-setting>
 
+        <bitlbee-setting name="mode" type="string" scope="account">
+                <possible-values>one, many, chat</possible-values>
+                <default>one</default>
+
+                <description>
+                        <para>
+                                By default, everything from the Twitter module will come from one nick, twitter_(yourusername). If you prefer to have individual nicks for everyone, you can set this setting to "many" instead.
+                        </para>
+                        
+                        <para>
+                                If you prefer to have all your Twitter things in a separate channel, you can set this setting to "chat".
+                        </para>
+                        
+                        <para>
+                                In the last two modes, you can send direct messages by /msg'ing your contacts directly. Note, however, that incoming DMs are not fetched yet.
+                        </para>
+                </description>
+
+        </bitlbee-setting>
+
         <bitlbee-setting name="nick" type="string" scope="chat">
 
@@ -916 +936 @@
                         <para>
                                 Sends you a /notice when a user starts typing a message (if supported by the IM protocol and the user's client). To use this, you most likely want to use a script in your IRC client to show this information in a more sensible way.
-                        </para>
-                </description>
-        </bitlbee-setting>
-
-        <bitlbee-setting name="use_groupchat" type="boolean" scope="account">
-                <default>false</default>
-
-                <description>
-                        <para>
-                                By default the Twitter module shows all Twitter contacts and their Tweet in &amp;bitlbee and/or private messages. With this setting enabled the module will show all contacts and their Tweets in a separate channel.
                         </para>
                 </description>