Re: Module proposal: Empathy for GNOME 2.22

2007-09-27 Thread Xavier Claessens
Le jeudi 27 septembre 2007 à 00:48 +0200, Sven Herzberg a écrit : Xavier Claessens wrote: * Purpose: Empathy [1] consists of a rich set of reusable instant messaging widgets, and a GNOME client using those widgets. It uses Telepathy and Nokia's Mission Control, and reuses Gossip's UI. The

Re: Module proposal: Empathy for GNOME 2.22

2007-09-27 Thread Lucas Rocha
Hi Xavier, (I'm replying your original message because I think most of the discussion went through some weird and non-productive paths). IMHO, Empathy is definitely the way to go for a GNOME-wide solution for real-time communication because instead of proposing a new application, you're doing a

Re: Module proposal: Empathy for GNOME 2.22

2007-09-27 Thread Mikael Hallendal
27 sep 2007 kl. 09.07 skrev Xavier Claessens: Hi, Right, libempathy and libemapthy-gtk are GPL because it contains code from Gossip. libempathy mostly contains trivial code from gossip, the rest is rewritten by me or some collabora workers who are 100% OK to relicence, so it shouldn't be a

Re: Module proposal: Empathy for GNOME 2.22

2007-09-27 Thread Xavier Claessens
Le jeudi 27 septembre 2007 à 10:07 +0200, Mikael Hallendal a écrit : 27 sep 2007 kl. 09.07 skrev Xavier Claessens: Hi, Right, libempathy and libemapthy-gtk are GPL because it contains code from Gossip. libempathy mostly contains trivial code from gossip, the rest is rewritten by me

Re: Module proposal: Empathy for GNOME 2.22

2007-09-27 Thread Sven Herzberg
Josselin Mouette wrote: Le jeudi 27 septembre 2007 à 00:48 +0200, Sven Herzberg a écrit : Next question: consistency with the platform The GNOME platform uses LGPL as the license of choice to provide ISVs with a powerful stack that anyone can use - even to build proprietary software.

Re: Module proposal: Empathy for GNOME 2.22

2007-09-27 Thread Marco Barisione
Il giorno gio, 27/09/2007 alle 09.07 +0200, Xavier Claessens ha scritto: libempathy-gtk is more a problem since lots of non-trivial code is written by Gossip developers libempathy-gtk contains also some code from epiphany (the spinner). When the file transfer branch will be merged,

Re: Module proposal: Empathy for GNOME 2.22

2007-09-27 Thread Martyn Russell
Xavier Bestel wrote: On Thu, 2007-09-27 at 10:03 +0100, Martyn Russell wrote: Right, libempathy and libemapthy-gtk are GPL because it contains code from Gossip. libempathy mostly contains trivial code from gossip, the rest is rewritten by me or some collabora workers who are 100% OK to

Re: Module proposal: Empathy for GNOME 2.22

2007-09-27 Thread Xavier Claessens
Le jeudi 27 septembre 2007 à 10:03 +0100, Martyn Russell a écrit : Xavier Claessens wrote: Le jeudi 27 septembre 2007 à 10:07 +0200, Mikael Hallendal a écrit : 27 sep 2007 kl. 09.07 skrev Xavier Claessens: Hi, Hi, Right, libempathy and libemapthy-gtk are GPL because it contains

Re: Module proposal: Empathy for GNOME 2.22

2007-09-27 Thread Sven Herzberg
Xavier Claessens wrote: I removed all code duplication there is in Gossip. Well, just unifying two passages of code does not make you the sole copyright holder of the refactored part. Regards, Sven ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list

Re: Module proposal: Empathy for GNOME 2.22

2007-09-27 Thread Andrew Cowie
On Thu, 2007-09-27 at 10:03 +0100, Martyn Russell wrote: I wouldn't re-license it [there is tons of both context and history here, which the rest of this thread covers. On the topic of licencing, however:] I must admit that as an advocate of software freedom and as someone who works for a firm

Re: Module proposal: Empathy for GNOME 2.22

2007-09-27 Thread Luis Villa
On 9/27/07, Andrew Cowie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2007-09-27 at 10:03 +0100, Martyn Russell wrote: I wouldn't re-license it [there is tons of both context and history here, which the rest of this thread covers. On the topic of licencing, however:] I must admit that as an advocate

Re: Module proposal: Empathy for GNOME 2.22

2007-09-27 Thread Mikael Hallendal
27 sep 2007 kl. 15.32 skrev Luis Villa: Hi, On 9/27/07, Andrew Cowie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2007-09-27 at 10:03 +0100, Martyn Russell wrote: I wouldn't re-license it [there is tons of both context and history here, which the rest of this thread covers. On the topic of

Re: Module proposal: Empathy for GNOME 2.22

2007-09-27 Thread Luis Villa
On 9/27/07, Mikael Hallendal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 27 sep 2007 kl. 15.32 skrev Luis Villa: Hi, On 9/27/07, Andrew Cowie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2007-09-27 at 10:03 +0100, Martyn Russell wrote: I wouldn't re-license it [there is tons of both context and history here, which

Re: Module proposal: Empathy for GNOME 2.22

2007-09-27 Thread Marco Barisione
Il giorno gio, 27/09/2007 alle 15.48 +0200, Mikael Hallendal ha scritto: I'm a bit unsure about how useful libempathy-gtk would be for third party applications? Do we have any use cases for this as a library. From the way I suggested at the time of the fork was to make Empathy run on

Re: Module proposal: Empathy for GNOME 2.22

2007-09-27 Thread Xavier Claessens
Le jeudi 27 septembre 2007 à 15:48 +0200, Mikael Hallendal a écrit : 27 sep 2007 kl. 15.32 skrev Luis Villa: Hi, On 9/27/07, Andrew Cowie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2007-09-27 at 10:03 +0100, Martyn Russell wrote: I wouldn't re-license it [there is tons of both context and

Re: Module proposal: Empathy for GNOME 2.22

2007-09-27 Thread Luis Villa
On 9/27/07, Mikael Hallendal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 27 sep 2007 kl. 16.00 skrev Luis Villa: Hi, It is of course their call. And likewise it is the GNOME community's call not to accept libraries licensed as such. We have a very longstanding and very deliberate policy to license our

Re: Module proposal: Empathy for GNOME 2.22

2007-09-26 Thread Xavier Claessens
Some more details: * About API stability: I can't promose stability yet, there is things I know I will change in the future. I think API stability is not requiered for GNOME desktop. * About API documentation: It's not written yet and I designed the API alone so I think I'm the only one capable

Re: Module proposal: Empathy for GNOME 2.22

2007-09-26 Thread Xavier Claessens
2007/9/26, Xavier Claessens [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Some more details: * About API stability: I can't promose stability yet, there is things I know I will change in the future. I think API stability is not requiered for GNOME desktop. * About API documentation: Forgot to say: Of course I'll

Re: Module proposal: Empathy for GNOME 2.22

2007-09-26 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le jeudi 27 septembre 2007 à 00:48 +0200, Sven Herzberg a écrit : Next question: consistency with the platform The GNOME platform uses LGPL as the license of choice to provide ISVs with a powerful stack that anyone can use - even to build proprietary software. You say, you took code from

Re: Module proposal: Empathy for GNOME 2.22

2007-09-26 Thread Ali Sabil
On 9/27/07, Josselin Mouette [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Le jeudi 27 septembre 2007 à 00:48 +0200, Sven Herzberg a écrit : Next question: consistency with the platform The GNOME platform uses LGPL as the license of choice to provide ISVs with a powerful stack that anyone can use - even to

Re: Module proposal: Empathy for GNOME 2.22

2007-09-26 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Josselin Mouette How do you plan to mess with this? Introduce a GPL-only library into the platform? Get the code relicensed? The target for Empathy is the desktop, not the platform. I don't think this is a problem for the desktop, as it already happened - the gtksourceview

Re: Module proposal: Empathy for GNOME 2.22

2007-09-26 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Xavier Claessens * Proposal: Include Empathy in GNOME 2.22 desktop. * Purpose: Empathy [1] consists of a rich set of reusable instant messaging widgets, and a GNOME client using those widgets. It uses Telepathy and Nokia's Mission Control, and reuses Gossip's UI. The main goal is

Re: Module proposal: Empathy for GNOME 2.22

2007-09-24 Thread Sven Herzberg
Ross Burton wrote: On Sun, 2007-09-23 at 16:00 -0500, Jason D. Clinton wrote: Needless duplication of work covered by Pidgin and Ekiga (and, so far, done better). This is a reimplementation of the wheel. Empathy is a UI around an IM platform which totally replaces the

Re: Module proposal: Empathy for GNOME 2.22

2007-09-24 Thread Jaap Haitsma
On 9/24/07, Jason D. Clinton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9/24/07, Peter Gordon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So? Distros are free to package and ship GNOME components however they see fit so long as they comply with any applicable copyright/trademark licensing. Unfortunately, as a good analogy,

Re: Module proposal: Empathy for GNOME 2.22

2007-09-24 Thread Dafydd Harries
Ar 24/09/2007 am 00:48, ysgrifennodd Jason D. Clinton: On 9/24/07, Peter Gordon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So? Distros are free to package and ship GNOME components however they see fit so long as they comply with any applicable copyright/trademark licensing. Unfortunately, as a good

Re: Module proposal: Empathy for GNOME 2.22

2007-09-24 Thread Dafydd Harries
Ar 23/09/2007 am 19:54, ysgrifennodd Travis Reitter: My main concerns right now are libempathy(-gtk)'s API stability and documentation. The API in svn trunk has changed since the last release (0.12), and (as Björn points out) the documentation is basically non-existent. Xavier, could you

Re: Module proposal: Empathy for GNOME 2.22

2007-09-24 Thread Ross Burton
On Mon, 2007-09-24 at 09:03 +0100, Dafydd Harries wrote: A question about external dependencies: which Telepathy components would be blessed external dependencies? I'm tempted to say none, just make the packages required at build time external dependencies. Everyone would build gabble and so

Re: Module proposal: Empathy for GNOME 2.22

2007-09-24 Thread Xavier Claessens
Le dimanche 23 septembre 2007 à 21:54 -0500, Jason D. Clinton a écrit : On 9/23/07, Alex Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Xavier On Sun, 2007-09-23 at 23:19 +0200, Xavier Claessens wrote: Currently GNOME has no IM program at all, Ekiga does only voice and

Re: Module proposal: Empathy for GNOME 2.22

2007-09-24 Thread Dafydd Harries
Ar 24/09/2007 am 00:12, ysgrifennodd Alex Jones: We have legacy transports that provide a basic level of support, but it will always be a balancing act, much like the reverse-engineering work in Telepathy/Farsight. Pissing away free development hours chasing a moving target wild geese just so

Re: Module proposal: Empathy for GNOME 2.22

2007-09-24 Thread Robert McQueen
Dodji Seketeli wrote: As I understand it, libempathy is a set of reusable widgets and leverages on the telepathy framework. That implies that nothing should prevent Ekiga from using libempathy/telepathy at some point in the future when it is stable and and has the necessary features.

Re: Module proposal: Empathy for GNOME 2.22

2007-09-24 Thread Ali Sabil
On 9/24/07, Jason D. Clinton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The critical difference in that analogy is that the thousands and thousands of man-hours spent on Gecko are reused in the Gnome-ification called Epiphany. As Empathy is proposed, all the work in protocol implementation that has come before

Re: Module proposal: Empathy for GNOME 2.22

2007-09-24 Thread Felipe Contreras
On 9/24/07, Jason D. Clinton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9/23/07, Xavier Claessens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I strongly disagree, Empathy do NOT reimplement the wheel! Empathy is not just an IM client like all others, it's an IM framework and is the only project that makes possible for

Re: Module proposal: Empathy for GNOME 2.22

2007-09-24 Thread Damien Sandras
Le lundi 24 septembre 2007 à 10:54 +0200, Ali Sabil a écrit : On 9/24/07, Jason D. Clinton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The critical difference in that analogy is that the thousands and thousands of man-hours spent on Gecko are reused in the Gnome-ification called Epiphany. As Empathy is

Re: Module proposal: Empathy for GNOME 2.22

2007-09-24 Thread Mikael Hallendal
24 sep 2007 kl. 10.54 skrev Ali Sabil: Hi, So I planned to reply to this thread later today but this kind of mud slinging forced me to do so earlier (will try to reply on the subject at hand later though). On 9/24/07, Jason D. Clinton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The critical difference in

Re: Module proposal: Empathy for GNOME 2.22

2007-09-24 Thread Felipe Contreras
On 9/24/07, Claudio Saavedra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2007-09-24 at 00:10 -0500, Jason D. Clinton wrote: * It appears to be a fork of Gossip and intended to replace Gossip. The Gossip author has stated that Gossip is not dead. Gossip has telepathy support... * It appears to want

Re: Module proposal: Empathy for GNOME 2.22

2007-09-24 Thread Ali Sabil
I guess you do not know what ICE is ? Do you ? Last time I checked ICE it was about finding a a quite good routing path (not always the best) between two endpoints for UDP packets. Then can you explain us how ICE can help when STUN does not ? I would like to see your argumentation here.

Re: Module proposal: Empathy for GNOME 2.22

2007-09-24 Thread Damien Sandras
Le lundi 24 septembre 2007 à 11:34 +0200, Ali Sabil a écrit : Then can you explain us how ICE can help when STUN does not ? I would like to see your argumentation here. Correct me if I am wrong, but STUN is generally about finding your external IP address, and determining the type of NAT

Re: Module proposal: Empathy for GNOME 2.22

2007-09-24 Thread Robert McQueen
Jason D. Clinton wrote: I've been diving deeper in to the code involved here and the more I see the more I dislike. Xavier, it seems that you implemented gossip-telepathy and then forked Gossip to create Empathy? Can you provide some history for us please? What is going on here? Various

Re: Module proposal: Empathy for GNOME 2.22

2007-09-24 Thread Ali Sabil
On 9/24/07, Damien Sandras [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Le lundi 24 septembre 2007 à 11:34 +0200, Ali Sabil a écrit : Then can you explain us how ICE can help when STUN does not ? I would like to see your argumentation here. Correct me if I am wrong, but STUN is generally about finding

Re: Module proposal: Empathy for GNOME 2.22

2007-09-24 Thread Rodrigo Moya
On Sun, 2007-09-23 at 22:17 +0100, Ross Burton wrote: On Sun, 2007-09-23 at 16:00 -0500, Jason D. Clinton wrote: Needless duplication of work covered by Pidgin and Ekiga (and, so far, done better). This is a reimplementation of the wheel. Empathy is a UI around an IM platform which

Re: Module proposal: Empathy for GNOME 2.22

2007-09-24 Thread Ross Burton
On Mon, 2007-09-24 at 16:46 +0200, Rodrigo Moya wrote: what about IRC? Would we need to have xchat around if using empathy? As you say, having all those apps not share anything but the network cable is a pain for users, so I'm all for having a single backend to manage messaging, included IRC.

Re: Module proposal: Empathy for GNOME 2.22

2007-09-24 Thread Bastien Nocera
On Mon, 2007-09-24 at 16:46 +0200, Rodrigo Moya wrote: On Sun, 2007-09-23 at 22:17 +0100, Ross Burton wrote: On Sun, 2007-09-23 at 16:00 -0500, Jason D. Clinton wrote: Needless duplication of work covered by Pidgin and Ekiga (and, so far, done better). This is a reimplementation of the

Re: Module proposal: Empathy for GNOME 2.22

2007-09-24 Thread Étienne Bersac
Hi, That's my first mail to this flamewar, i vote for inclusion of empathy. That really shouldn't be a blocker. Empathy does not aim to replace xchat-gnome (yet). This discussion is only about empathy inclusion at all. Yet it is possible to connect to IRC using telepathy, but empathy is far

Module proposal: Empathy for GNOME 2.22

2007-09-23 Thread Xavier Claessens
Hi, * Proposal: Include Empathy in GNOME 2.22 desktop. * Purpose: Empathy [1] consists of a rich set of reusable instant messaging widgets, and a GNOME client using those widgets. It uses Telepathy and Nokia's Mission Control, and reuses Gossip's UI. The main goal is to permit desktop

Re: Module proposal: Empathy for GNOME 2.22

2007-09-23 Thread Jaap Haitsma
+1 from me IMO having chat / voip and video integrated in the desktop will be killer feature for the GNOME desktop Jaap ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list

Re: Module proposal: Empathy for GNOME 2.22

2007-09-23 Thread Vincent Untz
Hi Xavier, Le dimanche 23 septembre 2007, à 10:59 +0200, Xavier Claessens a écrit : * Dependencies: glib-2.0 = 2.14.0 gconf-2.0 = 1.2.0 libxml-2.0 gnome-vfs-2.0 libtelepathy = 0.0.57 libmissioncontrol = 4.33 gtk+-2.0 = 2.12.0 libglade-2.0 = 2.0.0

Re: Module proposal: Empathy for GNOME 2.22

2007-09-23 Thread Xavier Claessens
Le dimanche 23 septembre 2007 à 12:16 +0200, Vincent Untz a écrit : Hi Xavier, Le dimanche 23 septembre 2007, à 10:59 +0200, Xavier Claessens a écrit : * Dependencies: glib-2.0 = 2.14.0 gconf-2.0 = 1.2.0 libxml-2.0 gnome-vfs-2.0 libtelepathy = 0.0.57

Re: Module proposal: Empathy for GNOME 2.22

2007-09-23 Thread Vincent Untz
Le dimanche 23 septembre 2007, à 10:59 +0200, Xavier Claessens a écrit : - At some point we'll have same features than Ekiga which is already in GNOME desktop. The big advantage of Empathy is it uses Telepathy framework which make easy for desktop integration and means we'll have VoIP for all

Re: Module proposal: Empathy for GNOME 2.22

2007-09-23 Thread Xavier Claessens
Le dimanche 23 septembre 2007 à 13:24 +0200, Vincent Untz a écrit : Le dimanche 23 septembre 2007, à 10:59 +0200, Xavier Claessens a écrit : - At some point we'll have same features than Ekiga which is already in GNOME desktop. The big advantage of Empathy is it uses Telepathy framework

Re: Module proposal: Empathy for GNOME 2.22

2007-09-23 Thread Dodji Seketeli
On Sun, 23 Sep 2007 13:41:10 +0200, Xavier Claessens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote : Le dimanche 23 septembre 2007 à 13:24 +0200, Vincent Untz a écrit : Le dimanche 23 septembre 2007, à 10:59 +0200, Xavier Claessens a écrit : - At some point we'll have same features than Ekiga which is

Re: Module proposal: Empathy for GNOME 2.22

2007-09-23 Thread Jason D. Clinton
-1 Needless duplication of work covered by Pidgin and Ekiga (and, so far, done better). This is a reimplementation of the wheel. If the last two Gnome releases are any indication, we are strapped for resources - taking on new modules that add absolutely nothing features-wise but DO add

Re: Module proposal: Empathy for GNOME 2.22

2007-09-23 Thread Felipe Contreras
+1 On 9/24/07, Jason D. Clinton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -1 Needless duplication of work covered by Pidgin and Ekiga (and, so far, done better). This is a reimplementation of the wheel. AFAIK Pidgin is not part of the GNOME desktop. If the last two Gnome releases are any indication, we are

Re: Module proposal: Empathy for GNOME 2.22

2007-09-23 Thread Ross Burton
On Sun, 2007-09-23 at 16:00 -0500, Jason D. Clinton wrote: Needless duplication of work covered by Pidgin and Ekiga (and, so far, done better). This is a reimplementation of the wheel. Empathy is a UI around an IM platform which totally replaces the single-application model of pidgin, ekiga,

Re: Module proposal: Empathy for GNOME 2.22

2007-09-23 Thread Reinout van Schouwen
Op zondag 23-09-2007 om 16:00 uur [tijdzone -0500], schreef Jason D. Clinton: Needless duplication of work covered by Pidgin and Ekiga (and, so far, done better). This is a reimplementation of the wheel. Are you serious? Although I have my own gripes with Empathy[1], at least it tries to

Re: Module proposal: Empathy for GNOME 2.22

2007-09-23 Thread Xavier Claessens
Le dimanche 23 septembre 2007 à 16:00 -0500, Jason D. Clinton a écrit : -1 Needless duplication of work covered by Pidgin and Ekiga (and, so far, done better). This is a reimplementation of the wheel. If the last two Gnome releases are any indication, we are strapped for resources -

Re: Module proposal: Empathy for GNOME 2.22

2007-09-23 Thread Jason D. Clinton
On 9/23/07, Ross Burton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 2007-09-23 at 16:00 -0500, Jason D. Clinton wrote: Needless duplication of work covered by Pidgin and Ekiga (and, so far, done better). This is a reimplementation of the wheel. Empathy is a UI around an IM platform which totally

Re: Module proposal: Empathy for GNOME 2.22

2007-09-23 Thread Olav Vitters
On Sun, Sep 23, 2007 at 04:56:34PM -0500, Jason D. Clinton wrote: It's Pidgin and it's non-inclusion in Gnome is irrelevant. Every single distro ships it as the pre-installed IM client for a desktop install. For better or worse, it's the application filling the IM space at the moment and I

Re: Module proposal: Empathy for GNOME 2.22

2007-09-23 Thread Alex Jones
Hi Xavier On Sun, 2007-09-23 at 23:19 +0200, Xavier Claessens wrote: Currently GNOME has no IM program at all, Ekiga does only voice and video AFAIK. Surely you haven't forgotten Gossip already. :P FWIW, I'm extremely keen on keeping Gossip going. I personally feel that Telepathy is

Re: Module proposal: Empathy for GNOME 2.22

2007-09-23 Thread Jason D. Clinton
On 9/23/07, Xavier Claessens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Le dimanche 23 septembre 2007 à 16:00 -0500, Jason D. Clinton a écrit : -1 Needless duplication of work covered by Pidgin and Ekiga (and, so far, done better). This is a reimplementation of the wheel. If the last two Gnome

Re: Module proposal: Empathy for GNOME 2.22

2007-09-23 Thread Jason D. Clinton
On 9/23/07, Reinout van Schouwen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Op zondag 23-09-2007 om 16:00 uur [tijdzone -0500], schreef Jason D. Clinton: Needless duplication of work covered by Pidgin and Ekiga (and, so far, done better). This is a reimplementation of the wheel. Are you serious? Although

Re: Module proposal: Empathy for GNOME 2.22

2007-09-23 Thread Olav Vitters
On Sun, Sep 23, 2007 at 11:04:43PM +0100, Alex Jones wrote: FWIW, I'm extremely keen on keeping Gossip going. I personally feel that Telepathy is potentially dangerous to our cause. I mean, great, you can voice-video chat with your MSN friends, but you still need an MSN account. One step

Re: Module proposal: Empathy for GNOME 2.22

2007-09-23 Thread Jason D. Clinton
On 9/23/07, Olav Vitters [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Sep 23, 2007 at 04:56:34PM -0500, Jason D. Clinton wrote: It's Pidgin and it's non-inclusion in Gnome is irrelevant. Every single distro ships it as the pre-installed IM client for a desktop install. For better or worse, it's the

Re: Module proposal: Empathy for GNOME 2.22

2007-09-23 Thread Xavier Claessens
Le dimanche 23 septembre 2007 à 16:56 -0500, Jason D. Clinton a écrit : On 9/23/07, Ross Burton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 2007-09-23 at 16:00 -0500, Jason D. Clinton wrote: Needless duplication of work covered by Pidgin and Ekiga (and, so far, done

Re: Module proposal: Empathy for GNOME 2.22

2007-09-23 Thread Olav Vitters
On Sun, Sep 23, 2007 at 05:15:36PM -0500, Jason D. Clinton wrote: On 9/23/07, Olav Vitters [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ehr, you seem to be arguing that people shouldn't start their own projects, but rather join an existing one. IMO you cannot dictate what people do with their time. People will

Re: Module proposal: Empathy for GNOME 2.22

2007-09-23 Thread Jason D. Clinton
On 9/23/07, Olav Vitters [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: today. Are we going to help Empathy with it's effort to some day offer a point-for-point feature match? That's what we are discussing. I don't believe this is what is meant with joining the GNOME project. It is not that we do a 'oh, lets

Re: Module proposal: Empathy for GNOME 2.22

2007-09-23 Thread Xavier Claessens
Le dimanche 23 septembre 2007 à 17:31 -0500, Jason D. Clinton a écrit : On 9/23/07, Olav Vitters [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: today. Are we going to help Empathy with it's effort to some day offer a point-for-point feature match? That's what we are discussing.

Re: Module proposal: Empathy for GNOME 2.22

2007-09-23 Thread Jason D. Clinton
On 9/23/07, Xavier Claessens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm pretty sure there is lots more developers working on the Telepathy stack than on pidgin, maybe it's the other way the fragmentation happens, pidgin developers should stop working on a dead project and contribute to Empathy/Telepathy?

Re: Module proposal: Empathy for GNOME 2.22

2007-09-23 Thread Reinout van Schouwen
Hi, Op maandag 24-09-2007 om 00:19 uur [tijdzone +0200], schreef Xavier Claessens: I disagree, it's important for GNOME to provide modern desktop features, so we definitely need an official IM program that follows GNOME HIGs, release schedule, etc. Not to mention translations!

Re: Module proposal: Empathy for GNOME 2.22

2007-09-23 Thread Tomasz Torcz
On Sun, Sep 23, 2007 at 05:31:32PM -0500, Jason D. Clinton wrote: On 9/23/07, Olav Vitters [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: today. Are we going to help Empathy with it's effort to some day offer a point-for-point feature match? That's what we are discussing. I don't believe this is what is

Re: Module proposal: Empathy for GNOME 2.22

2007-09-23 Thread Alex Jones
Hi Olav On Mon, 2007-09-24 at 00:15 +0200, Olav Vitters wrote: On Sun, Sep 23, 2007 at 11:04:43PM +0100, Alex Jones wrote: FWIW, I'm extremely keen on keeping Gossip going. I personally feel that Telepathy is potentially dangerous to our cause. I mean, great, you can voice-video chat with

Re: Module proposal: Empathy for GNOME 2.22

2007-09-23 Thread BJörn Lindqvist
On 9/23/07, Xavier Claessens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Purpose: Empathy [1] consists of a rich set of reusable instant messaging widgets, and a GNOME client using those widgets. It uses Telepathy and Nokia's Mission Control, and reuses Gossip's UI. The main goal is to permit desktop

Re: Module proposal: Empathy for GNOME 2.22

2007-09-23 Thread Olav Vitters
On Mon, Sep 24, 2007 at 12:12:12AM +0100, Alex Jones wrote: If a program doesn't allow me to chat with my friends (which is what I primarily want in an IM app), then how do you expect me ever to discover the benefits of a free service? We have legacy transports that provide a basic level

Re: Module proposal: Empathy for GNOME 2.22

2007-09-23 Thread Xavier Claessens
Le lundi 24 septembre 2007 à 00:12 +0100, Alex Jones a écrit : Hi Olav On Mon, 2007-09-24 at 00:15 +0200, Olav Vitters wrote: On Sun, Sep 23, 2007 at 11:04:43PM +0100, Alex Jones wrote: FWIW, I'm extremely keen on keeping Gossip going. I personally feel that Telepathy is potentially

Re: Module proposal: Empathy for GNOME 2.22

2007-09-23 Thread Ethan Osten
On Sun, 2007-09-23 at 17:31 -0500, Jason D. Clinton wrote: I agree with your statement about developer allocation. But that's not what I mean. Inclusion in the official Gnome suite adds a certain level of additional credibility to a project. And while this is always good for the project in

Re: Module proposal: Empathy for GNOME 2.22

2007-09-23 Thread Andrew Cowie
On Sun, 2007-09-23 at 17:07 -0500, Jason D. Clinton wrote: See my other reply regarding Pidgin's de facto status as the Gnome desktop IM client. Being a part of GNOME is not just writing an app that happens to use GTK (and don't even talk about the evolution - great way to smash your

Re: Module proposal: Empathy for GNOME 2.22

2007-09-23 Thread Travis Reitter
Jason, Motivation for unpaid Free Software development isn't the same as for commercial software. You can't just tell someone which project(s) they get to work on. They will work on which project(s) they think are most interesting and/or important or they'll choose to do something else with their

Re: Module proposal: Empathy for GNOME 2.22

2007-09-23 Thread Jason D. Clinton
I read your message three time but I still can't figure out if you're for or against Empathy in Gnome. On 9/23/07, Andrew Cowie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 2007-09-23 at 17:07 -0500, Jason D. Clinton wrote: See my other reply regarding Pidgin's de facto status as the Gnome desktop IM

Re: Module proposal: Empathy for GNOME 2.22

2007-09-23 Thread Jason D. Clinton
You appear to have not read the thread. On 9/23/07, Travis Reitter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jason, Motivation for unpaid Free Software development isn't the same as for commercial software. You can't just tell someone which project(s) they get to work on. They will work on which project(s)

Re: Module proposal: Empathy for GNOME 2.22

2007-09-23 Thread Jason D. Clinton
On 9/23/07, Alex Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Xavier On Sun, 2007-09-23 at 23:19 +0200, Xavier Claessens wrote: Currently GNOME has no IM program at all, Ekiga does only voice andvideo AFAIK. Surely you haven't forgotten Gossip already. :P FWIW, I'm extremely keen on keeping

Re: Module proposal: Empathy for GNOME 2.22

2007-09-23 Thread Travis Reitter
As the lead developer of Soylent, I thought I'd add my own opinions based on experience with libempathy(-gtk). Using libempathy(-gtk) as a Telepathy wrapper made it very easy for me to integrate instant messaging into Soylent. I've found the API to be very consistent and thereby easy to use. The

Re: Module proposal: Empathy for GNOME 2.22

2007-09-23 Thread Travis Reitter
I read the thread - I just responded in general. But let me get a little more specific: From my own perspective, I would describe the three competing applications as: Empathy is a general communications program based around Telepathy, and meant to be well-integrated into Gnome. Ekiga is a

Re: Module proposal: Empathy for GNOME 2.22

2007-09-23 Thread Jason D. Clinton
On 9/23/07, Travis Reitter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I read the thread - I just responded in general. But let me get a little more specific: From my own perspective, I would describe the three competing applications as: Empathy is a general communications program based around Telepathy, and

Re: Module proposal: Empathy for GNOME 2.22

2007-09-23 Thread Claudio Saavedra
On Mon, 2007-09-24 at 00:10 -0500, Jason D. Clinton wrote: * It appears to be a fork of Gossip and intended to replace Gossip. The Gossip author has stated that Gossip is not dead. Gossip has telepathy support... * It appears to want to replace the default IM client installed in distros

Re: Module proposal: Empathy for GNOME 2.22

2007-09-23 Thread Jaap Haitsma
On 9/24/07, Jason D. Clinton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * It appears to be a fork of Gossip and intended to replace Gossip. The Gossip author has stated that Gossip is not dead. Gossip has telepathy support... FYI Telepathy support has been removed from gossip. Gossip is now only focusing on

Re: Module proposal: Empathy for GNOME 2.22

2007-09-23 Thread Peter Gordon
El lun, 24-09-2007 a las 00:10 -0500, Jason D. Clinton escribió: * It appears to want to replace the default IM client installed in distros (Pidgin). So? Distros are free to package and ship GNOME components however they see fit so long as they comply with any applicable copyright/trademark

Re: Module proposal: Empathy for GNOME 2.22

2007-09-23 Thread Jason D. Clinton
On 9/24/07, Jaap Haitsma [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * It appears to want to replace Ekiga. There appears to be no buy-in from Ekiga developers. * It appears to want to replace the default IM client installed in distros (Pidgin). If the consensus is that empathy is better I don't see

Re: Module proposal: Empathy for GNOME 2.22

2007-09-23 Thread Jason D. Clinton
On 9/24/07, Peter Gordon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So? Distros are free to package and ship GNOME components however they see fit so long as they comply with any applicable copyright/trademark licensing. Unfortunately, as a good analogy, most tend to ship Firefox or Seamonkey as the default