[Telepathy] handling custom channels

[harini satyanarayanan]

hi,
   Thanks for the reply, but i still didn't get the last point what
happens when mission control handles the text channel, is it going to
be a problem embedding other messages in a text channel?

Thanks,
Harini

>  Each connection manager can only support those channel types that it has been
>  programmed to support. Each channel type it supports is mapped to the
>  underlying protocols. I.e. if the CM supports the Text channel type, it has
>  code to map that to sending and receiving text messages in the protocols it
>  supports.
>
>  For applications that need to communicate in ways not supported by other
>  channel types, we have tubes, which are intended to support general
>  communication.
>
>  If you don't have a connection manager that doesn't support tubes, you could
>  layer your application messages over text channels, but on Maemo, Mission
>  Control will hand text channels to the chat UI.
>
>  I hope this clarifies things.
>
>  --
>  Dafydd