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List:       kopete-devel
Subject:    Email notifications for gooogle talk (jabber) accounts
From:       Martin <darklight.xdarklight () googlemail ! com>
Date:       2010-05-17 19:27:19
Message-ID: 201005172127.20026.darklight.xdarklight () googlemail ! com
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Hi,

I was thinking about how I could make kopete notify me when I have unread 
emails in my googlemail inbox (I have an account which I only use for 
chatting, I don't check my emails very often there - thus it would be cool if 
kopete could notify me if there are any new mails).

Unfortunately it seems that this is not as simple as I thought.
The jabber protocol plugin itself is quite heavy and I don't really want to 
add mail support directly to it (as in my opinion it's not the protocol 
plugin's task to show me a dialog with a list of new emails).

Then I thought I could write a plugin for kopete which would do the job.
Unfortunately this is also not that easy, as it would be cool if some of the 
code from the jabber-plugin could be reused.
Google has some custom extensions to the jabber protocol (see [0]) which allow 
you to get a list of unread emails (see [1]).
Unfortunately it's currently not possible to use a plugin to send XMPP 
requests to the server (since then parts of the jabber protocol plugin would 
need to be part of the public API - which of course is not possible.)

Now I had another thought: we could add a Plasma::DataEngine for the data 
which a possible plugin would have to know.
For example we could make JabberClient::send and the signals incomingXML and 
outgoingXML part of the DataEngine (probably more is needed, but you get what 
I want ;)).
This way our new plugin could send new xmpp requests to the server plus 
receive the responses.

This would also mean we could for example move the jabber "XML Console" to 
it's own plugin.

Any comment, critic or other feedback is welcome :)

Regards,
Martin

[0] http://code.google.com/intl/sk/apis/talk/jep_extensions/extensions.html
[1] http://code.google.com/intl/sk/apis/talk/jep_extensions/gmail.html
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