Personal

My name is Marcus Lundblad. I live in Uppsala, Sweden.
In the daytime I make my living as a software engineer.

Contact

• XMPP: mlundblad@…
• MSN: ml@…
• ICQ: 11604698

Projects and Ideas

Here are some Pidgin-related projects/ideas I have.

• Emoticon support
  • Add support for using "custom smileys" on XMPP using XEP-0231 (bits of binary)
  • A persistent emoticon cache would be nice
  • Add support for protocol-specific emoticon constraints (dimensions, file size, mime types...)
• Voice and Video
  • ...
• Multi-user Chats
  • Support unnamed chats
    • Ability to add contacts to and existing two-person conversation to turn it into a chat
    • Support "temporary MUC" for XMPP, generating a room name and use it as an "unnamed chat"
• XMPP
  • In-band bytestream support for file transfers
  • Jingle file transfers
  • ...

Open Tickets Assigned to Me

Patches welcome milestone tickets:

#1507

Support Google Talk file transfer method

milestone tickets:

#7380

Hide New IM Conversations setting doesn't work

#8524

Uses the wrong jid when sending/receiving files to MUC participants

#8623

Support Jingle file transfers (XEP-0234) on XMPP

#9476

Add support for file transfer thumbnails for XMPP

#9830

pidgin registers the wrong IP in UPnP router when client is multihomed

#11707

Pidgin does not close TCP ports on router when file transfer is failed

#13414

[IBB] Pidgin closes the bytestream before acknowledging the last stanza

#14430

IBB receiver reads struct after free (at completion of transfer)

#15120

Contacts using GTalk on Android don't show up as capable of audio/video.

Other tickets related to me

2.5.2 milestone tickets:

#7159

Pidgin crash adding a msn smile.

2.7.3 milestone tickets:

#12185

Bug with the smileys of Jabbim

Patches Needing Improvement milestone tickets:

#10056

Add ability to insert image in XMPP IM

milestone tickets:

#9984

Make DNS queries through SOCKS5 proxy when using one

#3279

purple_conv_custom_smiley_add fails to properly add the image if remote is FALSE

#6724

Animated custom smileys appear too big.

#7228

Crash!

#10569

file transfer error

#11704

Problem with In-band file transfer with some jabber clients

#12829

Smileys with asterisk don't show because they are damaged in gtalk

2.5.0 milestone tickets:

#5913

Store custom smileys with hashed filename

#6057

Only grey out smileys when there is a custom smiley with same shortcut on custom-smiley-protocols

2.5.2 milestone tickets:

#5627

Implement custom emoticons on XMPP using XEP 0231

2.6.0 milestone tickets:

#6183

Support In-band bytestreams (IBB) method for file transfers on XMPP

#7773

Support client type emblems for XMPP

milestone tickets:

#6578

New smileys in ICQ

#3663

Ordering of offline buddies is wrong

#5855

Add context menu alternative to add received custom smiley

#6003

Add ellipsis (...) to menu items that results in a dialog

#6004

Add ellipsis (...) to menu items that results in a dialog

#6038

Show status icons in the "New status..." dialog

#8623

Support Jingle file transfers (XEP-0234) on XMPP

#9476

Add support for file transfer thumbnails for XMPP

#11582

Icons for XMPP moods

#15120

Contacts using GTalk on Android don't show up as capable of audio/video.