On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 10:58 AM, Sriram Ramkrishna <s...@ramkrishna.me>wrote:
> > > On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 2:11 AM, David Prieto <frandavid...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> Jasper, >> >> >> This is indeed what we're trying to do... see the long thread that davidz >>> started about "GOA" >>> >>> >>> http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2011-April/msg00107.html >>> >> >> That's very, very interesting. One thing caught my eye, though: >> >> This daemon/library thing, let's call it GOA (Gnome Online Accounts), >>> would _not_ be a mechanism to access any of these services. But it >>> would provide e.g. libsocialweb, telepathy, e-d-s and so on with >>> either the username/password combo or the OAuth token, whatever is >>> appropriate. >>> >>> >> Does that mean that in order to get, e.g. IM notifications, the user would >> still have to open Empathy? Because not needing to keep it open was one of >> the main points of my proposal. >> >> > I believe the Idea that Jasper mentioned at the top of the thread is that > Empathy disappears in favor of the shell. So the thread above there is all > about contacts and roster. Once they start getting supported directly in > the shell, you don't really need empathy anymore. > > The only thing that would be problematic is that a lot of people use pidgin > for instance to get access to microsoft communicator and messaging.. or > they use it for IRC/SILC.. in which case i'm not quite sure how other IM > clients will be allowed to work with shell without some code surgery on the > code base for pidgin to use new APIs. > Telepathy is based on independent moving parts that do the dirty work of connecting to MSN, or to AIM, or to Google Talk. One of these parts is "telepathy-haze" and hooks up libpurple to telepathy, which effectively means that anything Pidgin can support is supposed in Telepathy. > sri >
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