Hey All,

This is sort of an announcement that I've been working on a bonjour plugin 
for Kopete.

I've already finished quite a bit of the contact management, and users
are added/removed from the contact list as they come online.

A screenshot (and link to code) is here:
http://tejasd.livejournal.com/24852.html

The Plugin Depends on Avahi Running on DBus (It is the only way I know
of to resolve a .local hostname. I don't know if I like depending on the
nss_mdns module). I'm not sure how this will work with other mDNS
implementations.

Also, the way I see bonjour working is that only people online in your
network should be in your contact list. For this, I tried to imitate
what I like about pidgin. In essence, when I connect, I wipe out the
contact list. I also wipe it out once when I disconnect (just in case).
I'm not sure if this is a bad idea? Of course, by contact list, I mean
bonjour contacts, and they are all neatly stacked in the Bonjour Group.

I'm still to do the message sendin, which may not happen til after my
exams (mid jan).

I was also wondering what the procedure would be to get this code
committed (after it's finished) as I'm a first time KDE contributor, and 
would likely need some kind of guide or something
-- 
Tejas Dinkar
http://gja.in
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