2007/9/26, Xavier Claessens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Some more details: > > * About API stability: > I can't promose stability yet, there is things I know I will change in the > future. I think API stability is not requiered for GNOME desktop. > * About API documentation:
Forgot to say: Of course I'll respect the API/ABI freeze in the schedule. It's not written yet and I designed the API alone so I think I'm the only > one capable to write the doc... so it will take time and I can't promise it > will be 100% covered in time for GNOME 2.22, but I'll start to cover most > important parts ASAP. > * About a11y: > I'm not an expert at all for that kind of thing, I would like to have > feedback from more experienced users to know if it's correct or if there is > things to change. > > Btw, I got Voice+Video more or less working yesterday, I opened a branch > with the code: http://svn.gnome.org/viewcvs/empathy/branches/EMPATHY_VOIP/ > > Have a nice day, > Xavier Claessens. > > 2007/9/23, Xavier Claessens < [EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > Hi, > > > > * Proposal: Include Empathy in GNOME 2.22 desktop. > > > > * Purpose: Empathy [1] consists of a rich set of reusable instant > > messaging widgets, and a GNOME client using those widgets. It uses > > Telepathy and Nokia's Mission Control, and reuses Gossip's UI. The main > > goal is to permit desktop integration by providing libempathy and > > libempathy-gtk libraries. libempathy-gtk is a set of powerful widgets > > that can be embeded into any GNOME application. > > > > * Dependencies: > > glib-2.0 >= 2.14.0 > > gconf-2.0 >= 1.2.0 > > libxml-2.0 > > gnome-vfs-2.0 > > libtelepathy >= 0.0.57 > > libmissioncontrol >= 4.33 > > gtk+-2.0 >= 2.12.0 > > libglade-2.0 >= 2.0.0 > > libgnomeui-2.0 > > libebook-1.2 > > libpanelapplet-2.0 >= 2.10.0 > > > > * Resource usage: Already using GNOME FTP, GNOME SVN and GNOME bugzilla. > > > > * Adoption: It is packaged at least for debian, ubuntu, mandriva, gentoo > > and fedora. It is used by Intel for the moblin [2] platform. There is > > patches for Totem and nautilus-send-to [3] to make use of > > libempathy(-gtk). Someone was working on integration in gtetrinet but I > > don't know the status of that work. There is also an epiphany plugin > > [4]. Work was being done for GSoC to integrate Empathy into Jockosher > > [5]. Empathy is also used by Soylent [6]. > > > > * GNOME-ness: The community reports bugs in GNOME bugzilla and attach > > patches, I review and commit in GNOME's SVN. Some i18n teams already > > started to commit translations. I take care of usability thanks to loads > > of usability bugs opened by Vincent Untz. User documentation is not > > started yet, I guess we can pick gossip's doc and adapt it for Empathy > > since the UI is almost the same. > > > > * Miscellaneous: > > - There is patches to support File Transfer, Voice and Video. I think > > it will be ready before GNOME 2.22 feature freeze. > > - Empathy is still a young project with some bugs but I'm pretty sure > > we can fix them in time for GNOME 2.22. > > - At some point we'll have same features than Ekiga which is already in > > GNOME desktop. The big advantage of Empathy is it uses Telepathy > > framework which make easy for desktop integration and means we'll have > > VoIP for all protocols (SIP, MSN, Jabber, etc). Empathy supports all IM > > features (private chat, chatroom, presence, avatar, alias, etc), not > > only Voice and Video. Ekiga don't have those advantages. > > > > Thanks, > > Xavier Claessens. > > > > [1] http://live.gnome.org/Empathy > > [2] http://www.moblin.org/projects_chat.html > > [3] http://www.barisione.org/blog.html/p=100 > > [4] http://blog.senko.net/2007/07/19/emphatic-epiphany > > [5] http://blog.mikeasoft.com/2007/05/07/jokosher-soc > > [6] http://live.gnome.org/Soylent > > > > > > >
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