Absolutely. It is a must for IM to be integrated into the address book,
it just makes sense to put the two together. And if the lead developers
don't want to do it, we can fork it. :)
Adam Nemeth wrote:
Hi all,
I was thinking if presence (online, offline, away, etc) could be into
the address book - as a part of libmokopim. I'd think of Jabber
(and/or SIP probably), since they're multi-resource. What would this
mean?
I need an information quickly from my workmates:
- Open the AddressBook
- Navigate to "Workmates" group
- See that John is online (with status: at work), while Jack is busy
- Normally I'd call Jack, but it seems that John is near computer, so
he could answer my question, I call him
I'm bored, want to get somewhere
- Open the addressbook, navigate to "Friends"
- See that Juli is "Free to chat" (with status: bored)
- I ask her (through IM or by call) if she wants to go out somewhere with me
- She agrees
- Marry 2 years after ;-)
I'm at a party which tends to be good
- Open addressbook, navigate to "Friends"
- Broadcast a message to everyone who's online "Get here fast!"
- The party will be even better in half an hour with them :)
For platform independency, sparing money:
- I'm on WiFi, and I have to call Jack
- He's online @ google talk
- I call him through Jingle (Jabber-VoIP) instead of GSM- FREE!
(Same goes to SMS)
For application developers - in case it would be XMPP (so: extensible:)
- I'm bored
- Let's play a game
- Not alone :/
- Let's see who's online!
- Juli is online
- Ask her if we could play chess / civilization / anything (jabber
fits better for turn based games, but it could be used for realtime
too)
- Play through XMPP: She's on the desktop, I'm on my phone
How to use multi-resource feature:
- I'm at home, I'm online @ google talk both with my Neo and my
desktop computer simultaneously
- With privacy lists feature ("semi-invisibility"), Juli could see if
I'm online @ the phone (remember she became my gf at point 2?:), but
John only sees when I'm online @ the desktop (I don't like to work all
the time)
- I get my messages to my computer (easier to type)
- They see each other through bluetooth
- I have to run, just get up my Neo, and hurry out to the street
- Computer senses that Neo is out of bt range-> resource priority goes
down, computer goes away
- I still get my messages for the Neo (only from Juli of course)
Send-a-picture:
- I'm at somewhere, which is nice
- Take a photo
- Set it as my avatar with one click
- or Send to somebody through IM
- Endless possiblities with WiFi (faster than Bluetooth!)
I'm not a Moko expert (although I hope I could get my hands on one
soon - a research center asked for one), but I know XMPP well (SIP...
not as well :/ ), and there are plenty of libraries out of there for
such, even for embedded devices. I think that integrated presence
would be a killer feature for Neo / OpenMoko.
What do you think?
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