Changes between Version 17 and Version 18 of SoCAndBountyIdeas

Timestamp:

Feb 29, 2008, 10:47:21 AM (16 years ago)

Author:

resiak

Comment:

Add a Telepathy prpl project.

SoCAndBountyIdeas

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  * Improve the widget-packing in a container (!GntBox), may be even have a grid-like container.
  * Have a spell checker, which would add some way of indicating spelling errors, suggesting possible corrections, etc.
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+== Telepathy prpl ==
+Currently, people wanting to use [http://telepathy.freedesktop.org Telepathy] have to switch from Pidgin to some other IM client (such as [http://live.gnome.org/Empathy Empathy]).  It would be nice to have a Telepathy prpl for Pidgin, presumably based on the `telepathy-glib` client API (and possibly on `libmissioncontrol`).  This would/could involve, depending on interest and time:
+ * Writing a prpl that speaks to Telepathy connection managers in order to connect IM accounts.
+ * Figuring out how to let accounts using that prpl be managed by Mission Control rather than by Pidgin, for coherence when using the rest of the Telepathy stack.
+ * Constructing some kind of global switch that makes Pidgin transparently use Telepathy rather than its own prpls when you flip it.
+ * Throwing together a hack to embed a `libempathy-gtk` video call widget into Pidgin when using the Telepathy prpl.
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+Familiarity with D-Bus would be a plus here.  You should either speak C, or enough of a ninja to write bindings for your favourite language in about seven seconds.
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+(The astute will notice that this is the second half of last year's [wiki:Telepathy] SoC project, which there wasn't time to start on.  Grab [wiki:resiak me] on IRC if you're interested.)