[Bug 24220] Run D-Bus persistently on a server and connect with Empathy from other machines

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24220

--- Comment #4 from Darxus <darxus at chaosreigns.com> 2012-04-20 09:26:13 PDT ---
Other IRC clients that do this: quassel and smuxi.


I understand (patches accepted).  But I think I'm more likely to write a client
from scratch than to try to implement it within this framework.  Just like
everybody else, apparently :/

Empathy bug closed invalid some time ago which I guess led me to open this bug:
 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=596696

IRC logs that lead me to open this bug, from #telepathy, around when it was
opened:


--- Log opened Wed Aug 05 13:16:51 2009
15:25 < Darxus> I run a text/console irc client on my server under screen
because the ability to instantly reattach to all my chat stuff from anywhere
(that has ssh and internet access) is very important to me.
15:25 < Darxus> For years I've wanted a gui client that also had that ability.
15:26 < Darxus> I don't suppose there are any plans to impliment anything like
that with empathy?
15:26 < Darxus> ..Break the client into a client/server model, where the UI is
the client, and everything else is the server, and they can run on different
machines?
15:26 < Darxus> I realize I can get something similar with vnc.
15:27 < Darxus> (It would also be nice to have a text/console ui for when I
want to connect from a computer I can't install the UI on.  And then a browser
app UI would be fun.)
15:49 < Mithrandir> Darxus: it's called headless chicken and chickenless head
and is a mythic beast that's been talked about for a few years already.
15:49 < Darxus> Mithrandir: Thank you.
15:49 < Mithrandir> there's no code to do it, though
15:50 < Darxus> I inferred.
15:50 < Mithrandir> I've pondered doing an irssi backend for telepathy, but not
found the round tuits to do it yet.
15:50 < Darxus> I wonder if it would be easier to add to empathy or start from
scratch :/
15:50 < Darxus> Mithrandir: How would you connect to irssi (which is the client
I'm running)?
15:51 < Mithrandir> irssi has pluggable backends, so I'd just write a telepathy
backend.
15:51 < Darxus> Nice.
15:51 < Mithrandir> my irssi is running in screen, so ssh + screen -r
15:51 < Darxus> It would be nice to stop using bitlbee :)

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