Merging them into one plug-in sounds like a good idea, but as Martijn said, it could be a little more complex. You are absolutely right though, there is no use for a kopete specific plug-in if we cant interoperate with the existing Gaim OTR plugin (or any others that may exist). That will be a main requirement for me, since the people I will be communicating with will be using Gaim! :)
If you are going to work on this with a friend, that's no problem. Once I actually get my environment set up I think I might just implement my own on the side, just as an exercise for myself. After looking at the crypto code, it doesnt look like it will be that difficult since I should be able to pilfer a lot of the code. Of course, I may be totally underestimating this! I have been working with Java for far too long now! ;) If there are pieces of my plug-in that you like we could always piece them together in the "final" version. Shaun On Thursday 01 March 2007 10:16 am, Kevin Bader wrote: > Shaun, > > I wanted to start writing the plugin with a friend of mine, but I think it > would be fun writing it cooperatively. As you we have just started to read > the sources and available documentation. > > Do you really want to start a new plugin? I thought it would be great to > patch the existing cryptography plugin - only if Olivier Goffart is happy > with our code of course :]. With a single cryptography plugin, not only the > configuration interface would be more straight-foreward, but we could > implement features better. When the plugin is finished it should be able to > chose between an OTR session and a GPG session itself (if the first method > fails, use the other, for instance). This behaviour should be configurable. > The user could chose the preferred encryption method for every single user > in his contact list. > A very important task is to be 100% compatible to existing OTR > implemenations. There is no use for a Kopete-only encryption solution. > > Which features are you thinking of? > > regards, > kevin > > Am Donnerstag, 1. März 2007 18:25 schrieb senecaso: > > Hey, > > > > I am actually just starting on an OTR plug-in as well! Perhaps we could > > do it together? I haven't accomplished anything yet. I've just been > > trying to confiugre my kdevelop project file to get things building > > properly (but I'm having more troubles than I want to admit). Once that > > is off the ground, I was thinking the OTR plug-in would be quite similar > > to the crypto plug-in. Of course the Config page would be a little > > different, but we could probably keep most of the workflow the same. > > > > Let me know. > > > > > > Shaun > > > > On Thursday 01 March 2007 8:15 am, Kevin Bader wrote: > > > Olivier Goffart, > > > > > > > > > I have never done any work on KDE or Kopete, but I'm willing to work on > > > the encryption plugin. > > > > > > > And i will give you help if i am available. > > > > > > It would be nice if you gave me some kind of jump start. Where's a good > > > place to start? I downloaded the source.. is there any documentation > > > available? (I didn't found any, but maybe I'm just blind today..) > > > > > > For now I will start to read the OTR docs. > > > > > > regards, > > > kevin
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