On Tuesday 06 June 2006 13:20, Andrew Barr wrote: > Hi, > > Something I wanted to do this summer was write an iChat plugin for Kopete. > I see someone has already had a stab at that some time ago, and ideally I > could use code from that, but it does use a strange mDNS system (zmdnsd) > probably due to it's age. Also a source of inspiration and/or code could be > Gaim's plugin, at least for the details of the actual iChat protocol. Of > course, my plugin would use KDNSSD (KDE apps are supposed to use that and > not avahi (or Howl, Apple mdnsd, or whatever) directly, right?) > > I just wanted to announce my intentions here and let the Kopete developers > know what I wanted to do so that you can tell me anything you think I need > to know or point me somewhere that might help me along. > > I've programmed C++ and KDE before, but I am self-taught. I'll do my best > and hope for the best. :)
Hi, I digged into iChat once. For LANs, it basically encapsulates jabber xml messages in bonjour packets for presence. I remember I was able to see the online contacts from my notebook but never had enough time to figure out how to share code with jabber in a good way. However for internet chat, I am pretty sure they use OSCAR/AIM I will be happy to help in whatever I can remember of the mDns stuff, and our Belgium Jabber hero Olivier will for sure assist you with the Jabber part. I will try to find my code, if it exists (I moved countries so I am not sure if it was in my backups). Duncan _______________________________________________ kopete-devel mailing list [email protected] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kopete-devel
