So, suppose I would like to support Emesene (Python MSN clone) in the messaging tray, what protocols, standards, guidelines and documents would I need to make this happen?
- Luuk On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 12:35 PM, Giovanni Campagna < [email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 8:41 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi! > > > >> I have tried Pidgin and sent myself messages from another computer/IM > >> account... and the message tray does not act the same way as it does > >> when your using empathy. With empathy, you are able to recieve msgs and > >> reply to messages straight from the message tray at the bottom instead > of > >> opening up your messenger window.... > > > > Well, this is using telepathy in the background which is the messaging > > backend of empathy and as such it is indeed tightly integrated with > > empathy. > > Exactly. Empathy specific code has been removed long ago, replaced with > Telepathy. > Thus any application relying on Telepathy (Empathy, Kopete, Gnome Games...) > gets automatic integration with Gnome Shell. > > >> Can anybody confirm support for "other ' alternate well known > >> messengers/music players for intergration in gnome-shell???? > > > > In short, write a patch to your favourite application to integrate with > > gnome-shell. Nobody limits the applications that support gnome-shell but > > as of now only very few applications gained support. > > I am not an expert in the details of the message tray but I guess about > > 90% can be done in the application by supporting the new protocol while > > some things might require gnome-shell extensions. > > Actually, the protocol is not new, it is the same DBus interface every > desktop environment uses (org.freedesktop.Notifications), the same exported > by > notification-daemon and osd-notify, for example. Some hacks are applied for > specific applications (XChat only, I suppose), but nothing else. > (This only applies to external notifications, not those generated > inside the shell, > by startup-notification, telepathy and extensions) > > > Regards, > > Johannes > > > > _______________________________________________ > > gnome-shell-list mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list > > > > Giovanni > _______________________________________________ > gnome-shell-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list >
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