I would just like to say that I am concerned about telepathy storing unencrypted passwords in GConf instead of GnomeKeyring. GNOME modules should be taking security more seriously, IMHO.
On Thu, 2007-12-20 at 04:52 +0100, Vincent Untz wrote: > Homepage: http://live.gnome.org/Empathy > svn/git/bzr/...: http://svn.gnome.org/viewcvs/empathy/ > Proposal on d-d-l: > http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2007-September/msg00301.html > > Short description: > ================== > Empathy 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. > > Requires new external dependencies: > =================================== > libtelepathy, telepathy-glib, libmissioncontrol > (libtelepathy will go away at some point in the future) > > Summary so far: > =============== > + a few -1 from people thinking it's useless duplication of > pidgin/ekiga/etc. work or not wanting to use telepathy > + some +1 from people thinking it's going the right way > + questions about stability > + questions about feature set that might not be complete yet > + API documentation needed to be written (I don't know the > current status) > + no API stability guarantee yet > + current license of the libraries is GPL > [context: if the libraries are proposed for the platform later, they > will need to be LGPL] > > Xavier can probably send an update about the feature set, the API doc > status, and the license. > > Vincent > -- Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "The universe is always one step beyond logic" -- Frank Herbert _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
