[Telepathy] How to share connections across applications?

[Danielle Madeley]

Many of the examples in the book predate MC5 and need updating to use
it. I would gladly appreciate help to update the examples to using the
Account Manager :)

On Mon, 2010-07-26 at 11:44 +0100, Simon McVittie wrote:
> On Thu, 22 Jul 2010 at 11:40:48 -0700, Paddy Carman wrote:
> >     I have been successful creating text chats using the python
> > examples given in the Telepathy developer's manual.  I would like to
> > understand how to share telepathy connections across applications.
> 
> Instead of creating a Connection directly (with RequestConnection), create
> an Account in the AccountManager, and tell it to connect. Then, use that
> Connection.
> 
> See: http://people.collabora.co.uk/~danni/telepathy-book/chapter.accounts.html
> 
> Existing Telepathy clients like Empathy also use the account manager, so for a
> simple application, telling users to create an account using Empathy is the
> easiest thing to do.
> 
> Similarly, to interact nicely with other clients, you should deal with Channels
> via the ChannelDispatcher rather than using the Requests interface directly;
> see:
> 
> http://people.collabora.co.uk/~danni/telepathy-book/chapter.channel-dispatcher.html
> 
> The reference implementation of an AccountManager and ChannelDispatcher is
> telepathy-mission-control version 5. 5.4.x is the current stable branch, and
> 5.5.x is the development branch. In principle, someone could write an
> alternative implementation, but we don't recommend doing that :-)
> 
>     Simon
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Danielle Madeley
Software Developer, Collabora Ltd.                  Melbourne, Australia

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