I don't think there's too much of a distinction between those, honestly. Telepathy is *mostly* there, it just doesn't have an interface for retrieving server-side logs.
On 9/22/15 1:48 PM, Olivier Crête wrote: > Hi, > > Empathy is the client for GNOME, so it's really focused on the GNOME > desktop. The fact that the Ubuntu people use it is mostly historical. > If you want to write a new IM client, you should just start from > scratch based on either Telepathy or even better, just on libpurple > directly. > > That said, old fashioned IM has mostly disappeared for regular people > and the replacement protocols, Facebook, Skype, Hangouts, etc, are not > suitable for the kind of APIs that were developed a decade ago like > libpurple or Telepathy. Old protocols were based on carrying messages, > while newer ones are mostly a view on a "mailbox" which is stored on > the server so you can keep your conversation across devices and the > web. Also, the large majority of real users are now using closed garden > systems, making open clients much more painful to develop as everything > needs to be reverse-engineered. > > Olivier > > On Tue, 2015-09-22 at 19:39 +0200, Peter Bittner wrote: >> Is it possible to use most of Empathy's logic, and plugin-in a >> QML-powered user interface on it? >> >> A bit like the Fahrplan developers did it at >> https://github.com/smurfy/fahrplan/tree/master/src/gui? (I understand >> that the difference technology-wise may be larger than in that >> project.) >> >> If convergence is going to happen on the Ubuntu platform a >> "responsive" Empathy implementation will be needed anyway. Could be >> good to kick this off now. A clean separation would also allow to >> implement a 100% web-based HTML5 Empathy client. Wouldn't that be >> nice, too? >> >> Peter >> >> >> 2015-09-22 19:30 GMT+02:00 Olivier Crête <olivier.cr...@collabora.com >>> : >>> Hello, >>> >>> Empathy works fine on ARM, but it is a desktop application, so you >>> need >>> to be running a regular desktop environment. The Ubuntu Touch >>> platform >>> is a completely different platform requiring custom applications >>> for >>> everything. >>> >>> >>> On Tue, 2015-09-22 at 00:39 +0200, Peter Bittner wrote: >>>> Are there any plans to port Empathy the ARM architecture, so that >>>> it >>>> would be installable on Ubuntu Touch mobile phones? >>>> >>>> Peter _______________________________________________ telepathy mailing list telepathy@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/telepathy
