Just a comment from a lurker :) On Dienstag, 8. Mai 2007 +0100, Jon Keating wrote: > If you recall some previous conversations about the new API, one of > the points where we got stuck on was how to add plugins of the > plugins. > > For example, video chat. A video chat plugin can be made as an > independent plugin, and it will provide the GUI _and_ network logic. > Doing this is quite complicated... providing the hooks to the inner > workings of the ICQ plugin and being able to modify the GUI. > > However, I think a good solution would be to make user of D-Bus[1]. > The Qt-GUI and protocol plugins can export an interface to the outside > world that any program in any language (that has D-Bus support). Here > is a quick overview of how it could potentially work:
Maybe you are interested in this as well: http://telepathy.freedesktop.org/wiki/ Basically Telepathy is a set of D-Bus interface specifications for components of communication programs such as IM clients. The KDE subproject Decibel http://decibel.kde.org/ might have some Qt based code you could possibly be reusing. Cheers, Kevin -- Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer KDE user support, developer mentoring
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