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List:       kopete-devel
Subject:    Re: [kopete-devel] Core/GUI Split in libkopete
From:       Matt Rogers <mattr () kde ! org>
Date:       2007-03-19 12:15:44
Message-ID: BF06D9E0-DF13-4D4A-8D62-54A73D7D387B () kde ! org
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On Mar 19, 2007, at 6:03 AM, Will Stephenson wrote:

> On Sunday 18 March 2007, Matt Rogers said:
>> As I've been going through and working on the model/view stuff for  
>> the
>> contactlist, I've come across two ways to do it.
>>
>> 1. Make Kopete::ContactListElement a QStandardItem so that Group,
>> Metacontact, and Contact are all model items.
>>
>> 2. Leave as-is and make our current listview items be model items  
>> and wrap
>> the corresponding class.
>>
>> The answer to the question of "Which way should we do it?" lies  
>> solely upon
>> the outcome of "How important is the core/gui split to us really?"
>>
>> So, how important is the core/gui split to us really?
>
> 2. please.
>
> It's important to me, to be able to exploit all the possibilities  
> of Decibel.
> I'm preparing a report on what we got up to this weekend, but a  
> quick summary
> of what we'd like to do, all of which implies strong core/GUI  
> separation:
>
> *) Metacontact mapping lives in Akonadi
> *) Protocols are separate processes
> *) UIs are separate processes
> *) Chat windows are KParts that can run in-process with the  
> contactlist GUI or
> be loaded into other apps (eg in response to an incoming chat)
> *) Contact handling UI will be in kdelibs as part of Khalkhi, eg  
> Interview
> delegate classes
> This implies
> *) Much of libkopete's logic will go into the Decibel daemon
> *) UI interaction has to be abstracted out of the protocols
> *) Using our existing contact UI in designing Khalkhi UI elements,  
> then
> reimplementing our UI using those
>
> So to rephrase the question again in more loaded terms:
>
> Do we want Kopete to remain a contactlist+chatwindows traditional chat
> application or do we want it to be reinvented as the heart, muscles  
> and skin
> of a new, IM integrated desktop?
>

Both

> Will

Matt


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