On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 10:49 AM, Daniele E. Domenichelli < [email protected]> wrote:
> Hello, > > On 05/05/2011 11:26 PM, Marc Mauri Alloza wrote: > > I'm preparing my proposal for Season of KDE. This week I've been > > talking with people of kde-telepathy and kobby to get information > > about how this should be implemented. I have a doubt about where > > this should be implemented. Maybe inside KatePart or as a subclass > > of KatePart? The goal is that my work could be reused easily in > > other projects with a minimum (or zero) impact on code of the > > application that wants to adopt the collaborative edition features. > > > I don't know where this should be implemented, probably in KatePart, but > you should ask this to kate people... > Anyway, how do you plan to use telepathy with kobby and/or the infinote > protocol? > I had a look at this last summer (before my gsoc proposal) and I didn't > come to an easy solution... > > You could tunnel the protocol using a streamtube, (and that's quite easy > to do) but then you get a protocol that handles connection, chat, etc. > transported into another protocol that handles connection, chat etc, and > that's quite ugly and redundant. > > Another option is to support only a subset of the inifinote protocol > stripping all the unneeded stuff and let telepathy handle connection and > chat and just use a streamtube to transport the collaborative editing > messages, but I didn't investigate the protocol that much and I don't > know if this is possible. > > Last option is to strip the infinote protocol from the unneeded stuff, > write a XMPP XEP (there is probably something similar already), add a > new channel type to the telepathy-spec and implement it in > telepathy-glib, telepathy-gabble, telepathy-qt4 and finally use it in kate! > > Last one is probably the hardest method, but definitely the cleanest... > and that's why I support it. :-D > Unluckily it is also the less related to kde (and that's also the reason > why I abandoned the idea of collaborative editing using telepathy in kde > for last summer gsoc). > If you choose this method you should definitely talk about this with > xmpp and telepathy developers before starting. > > > Cheers, > Daniele > > > P.S. Please don't feel discouraged from this, I really support the idea > of collaborative editing using telepathy, but I don't like the idea of a > quick hack just to make it work! ;) > _______________________________________________ > KDE-Telepathy mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-telepathy > I'm not sure how this works but sounds to me like we're making it slightly more complicated than it is. Why isn't a telepathy socket enough to send information? I've always understood that telepathy can handle this kind of connection... Does it clash with the rest of services? Aleix
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