document that collaborative apps shouldn't normally use FT
Submitted by Simon McVittie
Assigned to Telepathy bugs list
Description
Rescuing this from doc/dispatch.txt before I delete it:
File transfers might be a useful model for collaborative applications to use to transfer snapshots of state, or to transfer related files (e.g. in a word processor, you could receive an inline image that is embedded in the document). This is much like dis6_.
Additional problems: if the file transfer is part of the word processor's IPC mechanism, then it really wants to get the file transfer, rather than having another process get it as a result of a situation like dis5c_.
Proposed implementation: Don't do this.
The only case where FT-as-IPC might be appropriate is where you do want the fallback behaviour to be "save it as a file". If you send someone a Tomboy note with ContentType = "text/x-tomboy", but they don't in fact have Tomboy, then perhaps just saving a blob of text to their downloads folder is what you wanted?
Version: git master