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authorWilmer van der Gaast <wilmer@gaast.net>2010-04-16 01:10:10 +0200
committerWilmer van der Gaast <wilmer@gaast.net>2010-04-16 01:10:10 +0200
commite88fbe272c097066e538d670fe8fa907e9847321 (patch)
tree3869ead829b68c358823a1daded8ee45e093bfd0 /doc/user-guide
parentf9ed3113c4bc5110171295abef9c140e1328aeb1 (diff)
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.
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/user-guide')
-rw-r--r--doc/user-guide/commands.xml36
1 files changed, 23 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/doc/user-guide/commands.xml b/doc/user-guide/commands.xml
index 0664aaab..7dd23d0c 100644
--- a/doc/user-guide/commands.xml
+++ b/doc/user-guide/commands.xml
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
<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>
@@ -72,11 +72,11 @@
</para>
<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>
</bitlbee-command>
@@ -658,6 +658,26 @@
</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">
<description>
@@ -919,16 +939,6 @@
</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>
- </bitlbee-setting>
-
<bitlbee-setting name="web_aware" type="string" scope="account">
<default>false</default>