Discussion: Gateway Create Contact

[singpolyma]

Related to #913 I'd like to implement UI for adding a contact through a gateway that is already on the user's roster. I just want to run my initial UI idea by you all before I start implementing anything. My proposal is that when a gateway is present in the roster of the account selected (using "Your account" dropdown in the "create contact" dialog) that the dialog change to this (if, say, it were an sms-type gateway):

and then selecting the "SMS" tab reveals:

[iNPUTmice]

So selecting the 'sms' checkbox / tab would basically just add @sms-gateway.yourserver.tld to the number you've entered? how is this saving time compared to selecting @sms-gateway from the auto suggestions?

[singpolyma]

I would use jabber:iq:gateway protocol to generate the JID, which will often do sanitization, etc, that the local UI could not do for itself.

(for example, with the sms gateway, removing non-digits and prefixing a 1 if needed)

[msva]

and what if there are tons of transports in user's roster? Create buttons for all of them? :)

[singpolyma]

@msva is having such a large number common? What do you think should happen? :)

[iNPUTmice]

See my comment in the related PR.