Gajim - 2024-02-10

Even chats that have ~1000 people only take a couple of seconds to load up on my slowest laptop (which I'm on right now), and it's from ~2008

It's interesting that switching from a big group chat to a small group chat is a bit slower than small to small. I guess some cleanup has to be done when switching away from a chat.

FWIW, for me the time to switch between chats is OK (even though it would be nice if it was as fast as in the telegram desktop client, and yes, it's better than MS teams), but what's barely usable is the "start chat" dialog. I would like to use it more but the delay between me typing Ctrl+N and being able to actually type the name of the group or contact I want to chat with is off-putting. I tried to improve it by implementing some sort of lazy loading with threads so I can actually type the group or contact name right away after Ctrl+N but failed so far.

nicoco, the way to go would probably, change the filter func so it shows no rows by default

only show rows if there are at least 2 or 3 characters

threads dont help, because the problem is the gui thread creating widgets and need to render it

this cannot be done async, all rendering needs to happen in the GUI thread

async would only help you if the delay comes from IO, like network or disk

lovetox I’ll try to improve the current MRs with your feedback before trying to work on a perf improvement one 😉

Does Gajim still not support Ad-Hoc commands for PM like Psi+ and Cheogram do, huh?

I don't even remember if it ever did, actually.

in the private chat, click the three dot button at top right

I've never used it so don't know if it works

So it was fixed recently? (I still cannot run latest Gajim probably) Or the feature discovery just does not work properly? Cheogram allows to enforce it, it does not work there by default as well.

Oh, libproxy updated in Debian, gonna check.

in PM? this makes not a lot of sense protocol wise

you dont know if behind a user in a muc, is one device or 10 ✏

you cannot address a specific resource because you dont see them

Nah, still the same crash when resolving gajim.org.

where would you send an IQ with adhoc commands to?

lovetox: > behind a user in a muc How is that related to users in a MUC?

PM, Private Message this is sending a message to a user in a MUC

My transport provides virtualized users, they always have only one resource anyway.

lovetox: isn't PM writing to a contact by real JID? MUC members are different, some clients name it "whispering" or so.

its called private message in the muc protocol

(and those have one resource actually, as the "resource" is the member nickname)

but ok, so you mean single chat

bodqhrohro, thats just the muc resource, not the resource of the device

IQ you want to reach a specific device

lovetox: yup, and that's why it's unrelated.

I did not even implement MUCs yet lol.

They slowly evolve in a separate branch and would be a major version milestone.

last week a user reported that adhoc to contacts do not work, gajim does not address the adhoc command to the resource

for that we would need some kind of resource chooser dialog

AFAIR, before Gajim allowed to write to a certain resource.

Like I can do in other clients like Tkabber or BombusMod.

yes we dont support this anymore since years

because sending chat message to a resource makes not much sense anymore

but IQs still do

but its currently not supported, though i guess not hard to implement

whats your use case?

lovetox: just numerous commands lol.

They're supported as text commands for a long time already, but I decided to also implement them as Ad-Hoc finally.

you would need to go into more detail, why would i want to send your device a command

lovetox: do you want me to copypaste the command help wall of text? :P

Available commands: https://conference.gajim.org:5281/pastebin/06b917f6-9eb4-4695-9422-752ddba36060

💅

Most of those things are not even natively covered by any XEPs yet.

so this is a bot, and you want to control the bot from a different account?

This is a transport, as I mentioned.

Which provides virtual user JIDs.

a transport as i understand it is a server component which has a domain

it does not have a resource

Yup, those a JIDs on that subdomain.

For the transport itself, I can issue commands via the Service Discovery dialog.

so you want to send a adhoc command to the transport?

you can also simply add a chat now, as we address all adhoc commands to the bare jid

this will work fine

or rather we have a adhoc dialog, and you can trigger it from service discovery or from a single chat

lovetox: no, it has different sets of commands for user JIDs and for the transport's JID.

I'm talking about the former.

Besides of that, I'm also going to implement interaction with Telegram bots, also via Ad-Hoc.

lovetox Speaking of adhoc commands: In one public MUC, where I'm owner, I get: `invalid item attributes: AdHocCommand.__new__() missing 1 required positional argument: 'node'` Known problem?

When trying to fetch the command list, I guess.

did you implement the adhoc command?

i dont get this error, i would tip on a problem with the stanzas

you would need to send debug logs

lovetox No, there probably is none. It's not my server, but I guess the list should be empty?

I'll check the stanza right now.

i would expect an iq error, and not an empty list

if no commands are supported

lovetox On my iq get (node="http://jabber.org/protocol/commands"), Gajim receives the list of MUC participants as iq result.

Btw. the XML console shows SM and presence messages, even if switched off.

yeah please send this to me

so i can take a look at the stanzas

done

seems like a invalid disco impl

it ignores the node attribute

and thinks this is a normal disco items request

you can see that it ignores it, because the node attribute is not returned in the answer

which is also not allowed, im pretty sure

lovetox It is an older, patched, Ejabberd. AFAIK, it will be upgraded at some point. I'll just check again, when that happened. Not sure, if that will happen this year, though...

> for that we would need some kind of resource chooser dialog lovetox: we have that :) it's used to select a device for jingle file transfers, but the widget is multi purpose ↺

https://dev.gajim.org/gajim/gajim/-/blob/master/gajim/gtk/resource_selector.py

lovetox pushed 1 commits to branch gajim/master fix: AdHoc: Send adhoc command to resource if there is one - https://dev.gajim.org/gajim/gajim/-/commit/543710538350655698c0cd2c4b80ee1965581631

sch, bodqhrohro ^ next version Gajim will send the adhoc command to the resource if there is one

Awesome! I will definitely try it out! Thank you, lovetox!

And I have to do something with the libproxy issue finally.