Hi, * Proposal: Include Empathy in GNOME 2.22 desktop.
* Purpose: Empathy [1] consists of a rich set of reusable instant messaging widgets, and a GNOME client using those widgets. It uses Telepathy and Nokia's Mission Control, and reuses Gossip's UI. The main goal is to permit desktop integration by providing libempathy and libempathy-gtk libraries. libempathy-gtk is a set of powerful widgets that can be embeded into any GNOME application. * Dependencies: glib-2.0 >= 2.14.0 gconf-2.0 >= 1.2.0 libxml-2.0 gnome-vfs-2.0 libtelepathy >= 0.0.57 libmissioncontrol >= 4.33 gtk+-2.0 >= 2.12.0 libglade-2.0 >= 2.0.0 libgnomeui-2.0 libebook-1.2 libpanelapplet-2.0 >= 2.10.0 * Resource usage: Already using GNOME FTP, GNOME SVN and GNOME bugzilla. * Adoption: It is packaged at least for debian, ubuntu, mandriva, gentoo and fedora. It is used by Intel for the moblin [2] platform. There is patches for Totem and nautilus-send-to [3] to make use of libempathy(-gtk). Someone was working on integration in gtetrinet but I don't know the status of that work. There is also an epiphany plugin [4]. Work was being done for GSoC to integrate Empathy into Jockosher [5]. Empathy is also used by Soylent [6]. * GNOME-ness: The community reports bugs in GNOME bugzilla and attach patches, I review and commit in GNOME's SVN. Some i18n teams already started to commit translations. I take care of usability thanks to loads of usability bugs opened by Vincent Untz. User documentation is not started yet, I guess we can pick gossip's doc and adapt it for Empathy since the UI is almost the same. * Miscellaneous: - There is patches to support File Transfer, Voice and Video. I think it will be ready before GNOME 2.22 feature freeze. - Empathy is still a young project with some bugs but I'm pretty sure we can fix them in time for GNOME 2.22. - At some point we'll have same features than Ekiga which is already in GNOME desktop. The big advantage of Empathy is it uses Telepathy framework which make easy for desktop integration and means we'll have VoIP for all protocols (SIP, MSN, Jabber, etc). Empathy supports all IM features (private chat, chatroom, presence, avatar, alias, etc), not only Voice and Video. Ekiga don't have those advantages. Thanks, Xavier Claessens. [1] http://live.gnome.org/Empathy [2] http://www.moblin.org/projects_chat.html [3] http://www.barisione.org/blog.html/p=100 [4] http://blog.senko.net/2007/07/19/emphatic-epiphany [5] http://blog.mikeasoft.com/2007/05/07/jokosher-soc [6] http://live.gnome.org/Soylent _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
