* Proposal: Include Empathy in GNOME 2.24 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 >= 2.16.0 gconf-2.0 >= 1.2.0 libxml-2.0 libtelepathy >= 0.3.2 telepathy-glib >= 0.7.3 libmissioncontrol >= 4.53 gtk+-2.0 >= 2.12.0 libglade-2.0 >= 2.0.0 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. There is patches for Totem and nautilus-send-to [2] to make use of libempathy(-gtk). There is a gtetrinet branch which uses libempathy-gtk to play with contacts. There is also a python plugin for epiphany using pyempathygtk [3]. Empathy is also used by Soylent [4]. * GNOME-ness: The community reports bugs in GNOME bugzilla and attach patches, I review and commit in GNOME's SVN. GNOME translation teams are already translating empathy. The UI is build with GNOME spirit in mind, empathy inherit from Gossip's excellent UI. * Miscellaneous: - Audio/Video support is still disabled by default but most problems comes from other telepathy layers and are being worked. I'm pretty sure it will be enabled soon. That means Empathy will be able to do audio/video calls over SIP and Jabber, MSN will surely come at some point too. Empathy is the only program capable of that AFAIK. - libtelepathy is now deprecated, empathy is moving to telepathy-glib. If we finish the transition we'll drop libtelepathy dependency. - Empathy's part for file-transfer is almost done, but the telepathy spec is likely to change soon. I hope it will be ready in time for 2.24. - API is still not documented and likely to change, I know this sucks. - There is no user documentation yet, I'll write an email to ask documentation team to write one base on Gossip's doc. - Empathy was proposed for GNOME 2.22 but got rejected because it was not considered stable/mature enough. Lots is already fixed and I hope to fix more during the 6 months coming. Help from the community is of course welcome! Thanks, Xavier Claessens. [1] http://live.gnome.org/Empathy [2] http://www.barisione.org/blog.html/p=100 [3] http://blog.senko.net/2007/07/19/emphatic-epiphany [4] http://live.gnome.org/Soylent _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
