Alex Teiche wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I recently recieved my A6 FreeRunner, and have been looking for some coding > to do:) I plan on writing a chat application(similar to Pidgin) optomized > for the small screen. I was wondering what suggestions the community had > before I get too far into it.
Hi Alex, I'm actually currently working on a project similar to this using elementary and telepathy; I haven't made it particularly public yet as it's only in a very roughly usable state and I think I still need to spend some time updating some of the telepathy packages in OE before it's easy to install directly on the device (there are easy to install debian/ubuntu packages though). At present it supports Jabber for text and jingle (google talk) for VoIP; although it's reasonably trivial to make other protocols available. If you'd like to join the effort you're more than welcome, I won't take offense if you decide you want to go your own way though ;) The final plan is to make it a complete communications package that handles SMS and GSM conversations as well as IM and VoIP (by writing some telepathy connection managers that talk to FSO); we have the skeleton of an SMS connection manager at the moment, but it hasn't been a high priority yet so it's pretty unfinished. It would then support a kind of "meta-contact" which would store details about a contact across multiple protocols so the best option could be chosen depending on availability (e.g. if wifi is available and the contact is online, then use VoIP, otherwise make a normal GSM call). That's all a little way in the future though. You can find more details and a few slightly out-of-date screenshots at http://www.openapathy.org and you can find myself (Elleo) and the other main developer (alasdair) in #apathy on irc.freenode.net if you want to chat a bit more. Cheers, Mike. _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
