On Wed, 2011-03-30 at 10:07 +1100, Danielle Madeley wrote: > It's very important here to distinguish between Telepathy as a service > and Empathy which is providing the views of that service. > > If the shell wants to sign the Telepathy accounts in, it's quite easy to > do that, it just needs to make the appropriate D-Bus call and it will > happen. Once the accounts are signed in, appropriate components (i.e. > the shell's text handler or Empathy) will be launched in response to > requested/incoming channels. > > So if you want to go online automatically, simply design what that will > look like in the user interface and make it signal mission control that > you wish to go online.
Yes, I'm not talking about how telepathy works here. I'm talking about designing the user experience of chat integrated with gnome-shell. I have little knowledge about how empathy/telepathy really works, and I've not really used it much before. So, as a "native" user, my view of the current status is that: * You can setup accounts easy in the global settings dialog * Once online you can change status easily in the menu and you get nice messages in the message tray when someone IMs you. However, In order for it to work you need to launch the empathy app manually. So, what I proposed was to have the shell spawn empathy to make this work. But, if we can do that without starting empathy that is even better. Still, the initial problem stands, as we're not currently doing this. So, we need to modify the shell somehow to make it possible to use the telepathy integration without having to manually start empathy. My proposal would be to put an offline item in the user menu. > Summary: Telepathy is a communications service, Empathy is a view of > that service. It's like how you don't have to launch nautilus to carry > out file operations. Well, you do, if by "you" you mean the user. Of course, any app may do file operations, but i'm not talking code design here, but user experience design. -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Alexander Larsson Red Hat, Inc al...@redhat.com alexander.lars...@gmail.com He's an old-fashioned small-town sorceror on a search for his missing sister. She's a bloodthirsty bisexual cab driver trying to make a difference in a man's world. They fight crime! _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list