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Subject: Re: Integrating IM applications - OFI
From: Ikke <eikke () eikke ! com>
Date: 2005-01-13 17:05:12
Message-ID: 1105635912.11284.32.camel () moonwalker ! trangez ! int
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On Thu, 2005-01-13 at 17:02 +0100, Igor Popik wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I would like to present OFI project - org.freedesktop.IM interface
> proposal for Instant Messenging applications which uses D-BUS as a
> communication platform. Everybody knows that *nix has a great number of
> different IM desktop applications with support of different IM protocols
> - but there is lack of integration with other desktop components (web
> browsers, mail apps).
>
> The goal of OFI is to provide interface standarization not a complex
> solution (however sample implementation and library is provided).
>
> This only a proposal of interface standard. It is simple, but It is
> working: we managed to to implement it in Gossip, Mozilla and GNOME and
> our IM app GNU Gadu - http://www.gnugadu.org.
>
> We are aware of Galago project. But in our opinion such integration
> should be done in ligth-weight manner :-)
>
> Some links:
>
> http://ofi.hakore.com/ - Project page
> http://ofi.hakore.com/ README.OFI - document describing the thing,
> please read it before you will flame us :-)
>
> Some code:
> svn co svn://svn.hakore.com/ofi
> http://ofi.hakore.com/ofi-0.1.tar.gz
>
> Cheers,
> THrull
Actually, stuff like this would be handled by DAL/whatever too
Ikke
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