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diff --git a/spec/Channel_Dispatcher.xml b/spec/Channel_Dispatcher.xml index 06f0458d..75362f3f 100644 --- a/spec/Channel_Dispatcher.xml +++ b/spec/Channel_Dispatcher.xml @@ -185,7 +185,9 @@ channel, or an empty string to indicate that any handler would be acceptable. The channel dispatcher SHOULD dispatch as many as possible of the resulting channels (ideally, all of them) - to that handler, and SHOULD remember the preferred handler + to that handler—irrespective of whether that handler's <tp:dbus-ref + namespace="org.freedesktop.Telepathy.Client.Handler">HandlerChannelFilter</tp:dbus-ref> + matches the channel—and SHOULD remember the preferred handler so it can try to dispatch subsequent channels in the same bundle to the same handler.</p> @@ -199,6 +201,11 @@ namespace="org.freedesktop.Telepathy.Client.Handler">HandleChannels</tp:dbus-ref> on it, and partly so the channel dispatcher can recover state if it crashes and is restarted.</p> + + <p>The filter should be disregarded for ease of use of this + interface: clients will usually use this argument to request + channels be sent to themself, and this should trump the filter + not matching.</p> </tp:rationale> <p>If this is a well-known bus name and the handler has the |