On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 01:31:51PM +0100, Guilhem Bonnefille wrote: > Sorry for the noise. I did not imagine that Telepathy has to provide > such interface. Just that Telepathy can focus on IM and delegates the > avatar retrieving to another D-Bus service. This is then the > responsability of the IM client to decide if it needs avatar or not, > and contacts the Avatar service if so. > > Concerning caching feature, of course the Avatar service can do this > job: before trying an heavy request, just check in its own cache if > the requested avatar is already downloaded. By this way, as cache > system is hide behind the scene, so any client (Qt, Gtk, Python...) > does not have to worry about.
When this was discussed in the past i think the general consensus was that the avatar cache should just be say a directory containing the avatars in a standardized layout. I think using a D-Bus service for that would be slightly overengineering things. Sjoerd -- Logic is a pretty flower that smells bad. _______________________________________________ telepathy mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/telepathy
