Dear readers, I am very pleased to announce the a new bugfix release of Decibel:
Decibel ========= Today's users are relying on communication software on their computer systems. They are forced to switch between different applications for the different protocols and communication methods (text chat, telephony, etc.) they are using. These applications usually are poorly integrated with each other, forcing the users to interact with several applications to do simple things like setting their online status to "away" on all communication channels they are using. Decibel is a realtime communications framework, meant to integrate services like CTI (Computer Telephone Integration), VoIP (Voice over IP) and text based chat. This integration makes it possible to uniformly manage user settings across communication methods. Decibel further enables developers to use these communications technologies more easily, allowing for improved communications and - ultimately - collaboration features in their applications. Decibel consists of the desktop neutral policy daemon Houston and desktop dependent components. These components interact with the user and its desktop environment by providing GUIs for common tasks like eg. creating a new account, storing passwords or contacting a friend. Using the Telepathy specification (http://telepathy.freedesktop.org/) Houston manages Telepathy compliant connection managers (implementing the various communication protocols) and ties them together with Decibel's components to form what a user perceives as one application. Development of Decibel is supported by NL.net (http://www.nlnet.com/) and the code is released under the GNU Lesser General Public License Version 2.1. Version 0.1.1 =============== This is a bugfix release, addressing some problems found in version 0.1.0: * License file was added. * Several buildsystem fixes: Should install on x86_64 systems properly. * Install all header files. * Update to new telepathy-qt and tapioca-qt versions. This change fixes some issues with methods not being reachable via DBus. These fixes should make it even easier for you to try out Decibel:-) Sources: ========== Get the sources at http://decibel.kde.org/index.php?id=90 The code is further available in the KDE Subversion repository: svn://anonsvn.kde.org/home/kde/branches/work/decibel Binary packages are not available. Known Problems ================ None. To Do ====== * Write some demos * Write a GUI to manage accounts * Improve APIs and functionality Contact ========= Web: http://decibel.kde.org/ mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] IRC: #decibel on freenode.net Do not hesitate to contact us if you have questions, feedback or want to help building a communication framework! Thanks ======== For this release special thanks go out to Nicolas Lécureuil (alias neoclust on IRC) for testing the build system on 64bit and 32bit systems. I hope you find this interesting... and sorry for the crosspost! Tobias Hunger Senior Software Engineer basysKom GmbH Robert-Bosch-Str. 7 | 64293 Darmstadt | Germany Tel: +49 6151 396-8769 | Fax: -9736 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.basyskom.de _______________________________________________ Telepathy mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/telepathy
