Thanks. I'd much rather see this in my blog comments. I plan to refer back later to that blog entry and similar ones from other people.
Personally, I guess that this can be achieved best by finishing gossip-telepathy. gimmie does not seem interested in telepathy and confuses the issue by combining extra features. http://www.murrayc.com/blog/permalink/2007/03/21/my-gnome-of-the-future-people/ On Mon, 2007-03-26 at 11:35 +0200, David Prieto wrote: > Hi Murray, > > This is the guy from the Ephy / FF thread. Your message reminded me that > some time ago I read an entry of yours in Gnome-planet, about gnome and > people. I pointed you to Gimmie, don't know if you remember. > > Well, it left me thinking and I filed this bug against gimmie: > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=421811 > > Basically, gimmie is not very useful now when it comes to contact people > because it just acts as a frontend for Gaim. My idea is to have it > handle vcards, which store all the information about a contact: personal > picture, IM direction, e-mail address, even contact phone and physical > address. > > Having gimmie show you your vcards and link it to Telepathy, > Evolution... maybe even Skype or some other alternative, would pretty > much do what you suggested, wouldn't it? And it wouldn't be all that > hard. You could even handle your contacts like a common file, copy them > to folders and send them to other people. > > My technical knowledge is very limited, so I would love to hear your > opinion about the issue and clarify any doubts you might have, if you're > interested. > > I'm attaching a screenshot of how the "contacts" panel of gimmie works, > in case you haven't actually seen it. > > Regards, > > David. > -- Murray Cumming [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.murrayc.com www.openismus.com _______________________________________________ epiphany-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/epiphany-list
