It might be handy to look over at what kmess is doing. http://amroth.coldshock.net/kmess/blog/kmess-features/hello-worlplanet/
-- Benson Tsai On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 23:23, Matt Rogers <[email protected]> wrote: > On Friday 27 February 2009 07:38:46 Rohit Yadav wrote: >> Greetings, >> >> I'm developing a small whiteboard project called "Graffiti" in Qt/C++. (see >> http://graffiti.sourceforge.net/) >> It was intended to be integrated in my small LAN messenger project IceCuBe >> ( http://icecubemsg.sourceforge.net/), but I was suggested to integrated it >> in other apps as well. I recently had a chat with Tejas and he suggested me >> to post my proposal to Kopete mailing list. >> >> So, I would like to work on "Graffiti" whiteboard plugin for KDE apps. It >> would be really nice to have a whiteboard for KDE apps such as Kopete, >> KDE-PIM suite like Kontact etc. >> The plugin will satisfy at least these two posts : >> http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=81460 >> http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=79911 >> >> I have implemented an XML based whiteboard which is protocol independent. >> Hence, it can be integrated into Kopete for Bonjour(LAN) and Jabber. >> Actually, I was suggested by Pradeepto (Asia KDE Contact Person), during a >> recent talk at our campus, to take my project to Kopete. So I would like to >> start with Kopete. >> >> Currently, I have ported the application for Linux(Fedora), Mac OS X, >> Windows XP but uploaded only the Mac OS X binary and source code. Currently >> I have the prototype implemented in my LAN Messenger project-IceCuBe. >> Please find yourself the source code and binaries on sourceforge website. ( >> http://graffiti.sourceforge.net/) >> >> I also intend to do this project for Google Summer of Code 2009. Therefore, >> would like to start working on the whiteboard plugin for Kopete and KDE >> apps in general and would love to hear from the developers. >> >> Looking forward to your help. >> >> Regards, >> Rohit Yadav, >> Sophomore Student, >> Department of Computer Science and Engineering, >> Institute of Technology, >> BHU, India. > > This is a nice idea indeed. Some suggestions for your summer of code proposal: > > - have standard shapes that could be created in addition to freeform drawing > - protocol integration with jabber using xep-0047 for data transmission > - protocol integration with msn (the handwriting feature) > > Thanks > -- > Matt > _______________________________________________ > kopete-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kopete-devel > _______________________________________________ kopete-devel mailing list [email protected] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kopete-devel
