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List:       kde-promo
Subject:    Re: [kde-promo] Planning and such
From:       David Edmundson <david () davidedmundson ! co ! uk>
Date:       2013-04-07 16:23:09
Message-ID: CAGeFrHCQUHSLizEYPBPno9RkpgRwG3RSMZRy-L=6a_B+=ekpvg () mail ! gmail ! com
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On Sun, Apr 7, 2013 at 5:10 PM, Jos Poortvliet <jos@opensuse.org> wrote:
> On Sunday 07 April 2013 15:48:47 David Edmundson wrote:
> > Hey,
> > 
> > Thanks for the edits. I looked over the article, whilst I really like
> > the idea of adding an about section, I didn't really like the current
> > form. It focussed on stuff we didn't do, rather than focussing on what
> > we do well. It's a rock-solid stable project and I want that to come
> > across.
> > 
> > Martin, Vishesh and I did a bit of editing and came up with this.
> > 
> > ---
> > 
> > KDE Telepathy is an instant messaging suite built upon the <a
> > href="http://telepathy.freedesktop.org/">Telepathy</a> framework. KDE
> > Telepathy provides text chat, video calls and file transfer services
> > over many popular instant messaging platforms including Facebook Chat
> > and Google Talk.  In addition KTp provides libraries for embedding
> > instant messaging or real-time collaboration inside your application.
> > 
> > KDE Telepathy follows the philosophy that communication is a service
> > offered to applications and the desktop. A more indepth technical
> > explaination can be read over <a
> > href="http://www.aosabook.org/en/telepathy.html">here</a>, but in
> > practice, this means that KDE Telepathy consists of independent
> > components. This allows KDE Telepathy to be well integrated with the
> > rest of KDE by providing plasmoids and runner interfaces as well as
> > providing the traditional contact list and chatting application. This
> > level of desktop integration allows endless possibilities and a
> > greater freedom of choice with how you interact with your contacts.
> > Boundaries of Telepathy however do not stop at communication, the next
> > step is collaboration, for example games can take advantage of
> > Telepathy and provide a multi-player capabilities without the hassle
> > of setting up network connections.
> > 
> > --
> > 
> > Also for the Kubuntu link we can link to this PPA:
> > 
> > https://launchpad.net/~telepathy-kde/+archive/ppa/
> > 
> > Thanks
> > 
> > David
> 
> Thanks a lot, David. I made some minor edits, see the article.
> 
Perfect, thanks a lot :)

> One question:
> are there already examples of games taking advantage of Telepathy to provide
> multi-player stuff?

Fully working in playground and scratch repositories, yes.
Released, no.

David
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