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List:       kopete-devel
Subject:    Re: [kopete-devel] SOC : Kopete Chat Window library
From:       "=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Micha=EBl_Larouche?=" <michael.larouche () gmail ! com>
Date:       2009-03-23 23:58:40
Message-ID: 49C82230.4010103 () kde ! org
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Kevin Krammer a écrit :
> On Tuesday 24 March 2009, Cyrille Berger wrote:
>> On Monday 23 March 2009, Pierre-Alexandre St-Jean wrote:
>>>> What else would your library be for? Chat protocols? What other apps
>>>> would use it?
>>> Multiplayer games, local chat and plasmoids.
>>> Example could be a plasmoid that would talk to kopete and make use of
>>> that library. Other Telepathy/Decibel/Instant Messengers would also be
>>> able to make use of it.
>> I don't understand how your library differ from telephaty/decibel/tapioca ?
>> Since from what I understood what you propose should be what is offered by
>> those projects as well.
> 
> The way I understand it is that this is mainly about the GUI portion.
> 
> A bit like having the same file dialog with all its different capabilities on 
> top of KIO with its range of capabilities.
> 
> Staying in that metaphor I take it that currently all applications use their 
> own file dialog, leading to code and maintenance duplication, different 
> behavior and so on.
> 
> So you could rather see it as a project to provide a UI extension library 
> capable of addressing all the different needs for (near) real time text 
> communication.
> 
> I think the range of interested parties is spans from instant messaging 
> clients over games to having common GUI components complementing the protocol 
> framework parts of Decibel.
> 
> Cheers,
> Kevin

Thanks Kevin, I was going to tell the same thing :)

First of all, I will be the mentor of Pierre-Alexandre. I live in the 
same city as him. I suggested this project to him. My source of 
inspiration was a blog from Josef Spillner:

http://www.kuarepoti-dju.net/blog/2009-02-24-chatwidgets/

The goal is to have a chat window component sharable by all applications 
that need one. I know that KMess reimplemented support for themes on its 
own chat window.

This proposal has nothing to do with communication. This part can be 
still handled by Telepathy/Decibel.

The application could need to supply a model of its contacts to be 
displayed by the future chat window component.
(This is just an example)




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