Am Mittwoch, 5. Juli 2006 21:01, schrieb Will Stephenson:
> On Wednesday 05 July 2006 16:00, Friedrich W. H. Kossebau wrote:
> > Since a few months I am working on a general framework for contacts and
> > services on them, kind of middleware. I did this on my own for now, but
> > now reached a state where IMHO it makes sense to present it to others and
> > have it discussed. Especially by those who would be asked to adapt a
> > little.
> >
> > Please read the blog entries for more information:
> > http://frinring.wordpress.com/2006/06/11/its-about-contacts/
> > http://frinring.wordpress.com/2006/07/05/framework-for-contacts-and-servi
> >ce s-slowly-getting-shapes/
>
> Great, I started this a couple of years ago when I first wrote KIMProxy,
> but never got the applet to a mature state. The kuick konqueror plugin,
> and the kmail and kaddressbook integration, are the only KIMProxy clients
> apart from a couple of 3rd party karamba-type widgets.
Well, spreading the use of new technologies can be difficult ;)
And I am not only aiming at a buddy list view, but for every place where
people/users/persons are shown. E.g. with a the file propertiesview:
Adding something like
new ContactLabel( Contactsbook::findByProperty("shellname",LoginName) );
with the ContactsLabel from ContactsUI, and one gets all services (menus) and
states for free (even configurable per app, cmp. filedialogs).
In the long term I am especially aiming at giving some base for (concurrent)
collaboration...
> > For now I am using KIMProxy in the plugins which add IM services to the
> > system. But I think special Kopete plugins could do a lot better. So that
> > the buddy list might optionally be displayed by views based on the
> > framework, e.g. as kicker extension, and yet be totally agnostic of
> > Kopete.
>
> This is the intention of splitting up Kopete into a backend and frontend
> using something like Decibel (Tapioca+Telepathy, sounds like a recipe for
> muddy though ;)
Yes, this area feels muddy for me already. Well, I just subscribed to all
those mailinglists and hope to find out by the time, who is doing what and
how.
> > I will not have much time the next few weeks, so please be patient with
> > answers from me. I will be at akademy, so at the lastest things can be
> > brought together there, I hope :)
> >
> > Right now I do not even know what projects are already on their way for
> > KDE4 in this area. I heard about telepathy & co. but that's it. Could
> > anyone give some pointers what the state is?
>
> Decibel porting is on my TODO but I don't have a date for this. This will
> turn the backend into a DBus service so applets, PIM, and every other apps
> can make use of it without a Kopete UI visible on the desktop.
Fine, sounds good for my plans, things seem to be fitting perfectly :)
Is there any code for Decibel already present?
> It's great to have another developer interested in this area :).
:) I hope, we can save us each a lot of code, but gain even better results.
Regards
Friedrich
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