[Galago-devel] Questions about Galago API

[praveen kandikuppa]

I already have a patch to use galago as the other backend along with
gaim-remote which i enhanced a bit. But the one main thing stopping me
from submitting the modified patch was  no support for buddy icons.
There is one more and that is execution of remote commands like gaim
uri's or showing an away message etc. It is also required for the
evolution bounty but it would be good to have it generally to drive IM
via other applications.
             Since you have said that the avatar code might take some
time to complete, i will be submitting the galago patch soon. Right
now the galago code seems forced on the gaim remote one and i am not
too fond of the way the gaim remote API is there currently.  It seems
that way because for gaim remote i have to use callbacks etc and is
asynchronous but for galago it is the opposite,
               Personally i would very much like to junk the gaim
remote implementation and use galago exclusively. It is far more
elegant to be notified of presence changes than to use polling which i
am currently doing for gaim remote and also it is IM independent. I
will  enchance galago integration as and when new API becomes
available. Other than that i have finished the main bounty
requirements and also put up an initial patch on the bugzilla.


Thanks,
Praveen.

On Wed, 8 Sep 2004 22:16:10 -0700, Christian Hammond
<chipx86 at gnupdate.org> wrote:
> 
> 
> On Thu, Sep 09, 2004 at 12:49:22AM -0400, praveen kandikuppa wrote:
> > Hi,
> >        I am trying to integrate galago as a backend for integrating
> > presence information in evolution. I have a question about galago API.
> > How do you query the buddy icon for an account. There is
> > galago_avatar_get_image_data, but galago_account_get_avatar always
> > returns NULL even for buddies which have a buddy icon set. Or is there
> > any other way to query for buddy icon which i am missing.
> 
> The avatar code currently sitting in galago-daemon and libgalago is
> incomplete, and will likely be removed until after the first release.
> I haven't had time to complete it, but it's on the list for the second
> release.
> 
> I know that you're working on the evolution presence bounty. I've been
> aiming for that as well (although that's not the reason for Galago's
> existence). Are you still proposing your gaim-specific patch, or will
> you be making another bounty patch using Galago? Personally, even
> though I'm a gaim developer, I've never agreed with the bounties that
> made gaim a requirement. Generic solutions are always best, so as long
> as Evolution uses something that doesn't require a specific IM client,
> I'm happy :)
> 
> I have some of my Evolution code in the patches/ module in svn. The
> rest isn't there yet, but the Evolution<->Galago integration is
> nearly done. When I have the time, I'll put up the rest. Work's just
> been busy lately.
> 
> Christian
> 
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