[Telepathy] Ang: Re: Ang: Re: Pictogram support (Montreal Summit)

Cesar Mauri cesar at crea-si.com
Mon Oct 31 06:56:30 PDT 2011


Hi,

Al 30/10/11 19:30, En/na Mats Lundälv ha escrit:
> Thanks Dannielle for this again very interesting information!
> I copy direct also to Cesar who initiated this discussion (and who was 
> accidently dropped from the send list for the previous round) and to 
> Peter Korn and some other friends in the AEGIS project group. We won't 
> be able to take on any development around this within AEGIS, but it 
> will be interesting to keep this in mind in the planning for follow-up 
> actions further on.
Thanks Mats.
> Cheers,
> Mats
>
> -----Danielle Madeley <danielle.madeley at collabora.co.uk> skrev: -----
>
>     On Fri, 2011-10-28 at 23:19 +0200, Mats Lundälv wrote:
>
>     > Thanks both for this interesting information about the preconditions
>     > for graphics in IM! The XEP-0231
>     > specs look quite promising (to an amateur in the techy field, as I
>     > am)!
>
I agree.For me XEP-0231 also looks promising. In addition, some major IM 
networks [1][2] are adding XMPP support and it seems reasonable that 
many chat programs would support XEP-0231 eventually.

[1] http://xmpp.org/2011/06/skype-adds-xmpp-support/
[2] 
http://xmpp.org/2011/09/microsoft-adds-xmpp-support-to-windows-live-apis/
>
>     To me, this seems like the way forward. It's worth noting that Empathy
>     is modular, and so a different chat component could be used to
>     provide a
>     palette of images, or something, for people who wish to chat this way,
>     which would prepare a message using inline graphics that any user
>     could
>     view.
>
>     This would require some work in Telepathy-Gabble and Empathy to
>     support
>     rich-text messages (which we want to do eventually anyway).
>
Probably most users of pictogram enabled IM will want to use their own 
AAC software such as SAW, Plaphoons or other. AFAIK those programs are 
able to send the text associated with each symbol to the application 
that has focus (the IM client in this case) . Not sure if it is also 
possible to send more complex data (html or even paste text + image).
>
>     > Another question then: Is there any support currently for Ruby
>     > Annotation  in any of these IM protocols?
>     > If not; Are there any discussions going on concerning this afayk?
>
>     Not as far as I know, however, this is an XML specification (as is
>     XMPP), and XMPP is designed to be extensible, so it would probably not
>     be too difficult to draft a XEP (extension to XMPP) to support it.
>     We've
>     implemented our own feature drafts in Telepathy-Gabble before (Tubes,
>     Muji), so I don't think another would hurt. It would allow two
>     Telepathy
>     users to chat together (assuming their UIs understood the message
>     type).
>     Other chat programs could choose to implement the XEP too.
>
>     --danni
>
Regards

César
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