[Telepathy] Empathy and jabber transports

[Jiri Baum]

Hi,

Will:
> Even if this had been done, the person at the other end would have to
> use a client that supports tubes, which (at present — other IM
> implementations could in principle implement tubes) means the Telepathy
> stack. So you both have to be using a Telepathy client (aka. Empathy, at
> this point) anyway, and then you may as well use an open, extensible
> protocol.

I wouldn't be quite so dismissive of running tubes over MSN or other 
protocols - there are situations where there would be good reasons to do so, 
most obviously where existing contacts are on MSN (as in the original query).

I suspect the real reason they aren't supported yet would be that while there 
aren't any applications actually using tubes, there isn't much priority to 
implement them in the back-ends.

This is, of course, a chicken-and-egg problem.

However, as far as writing an application is concerned, telepathy tubes are 
already useful even with the single combination of protocol, variant and 
desktop that is now supported (depening on what kind of tube you want); 
hopefully, once real telepathy tube applications start getting use, the 
priority of supporting them will rise and the gap will be quickly filled.


Jiri
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