[Telepathy] Abiword's Collab plugin with Telepathy

[Martin Srebotnjak]

Just to offer developers a bit of a break, because these issues require the
highest possible concentration, I offer you to consider the following
question regarding your example:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CsrfovOPcjk

I hope no harm was done, enjoy the weekend ...

m.

On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 3:20 PM, Alban Crequy <alban.crequy at collabora.co.uk>
wrote:

>
> Le Fri, 11 Apr 2008 09:21:52 +0200,
> "Robert Staudinger" <robert.staudinger at gmail.com> a écrit :
>
> >
> > On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 4:47 PM, Alban Crequy
> > <alban.crequy at collabora.co.uk> wrote:
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > >  1. Alice writes an Abiword document and wants to share it with
> > > Bob. She clicks on the "Share document" checkbox and selects Bob in
> > > her contact list. Bob is online and receives the proposition from
> > > Alice in his IM software. If he accepts, Abiword is started
> > > automatically with the Alice's document.
> >
> > What happens if Bob does not accept to open it immediately? Will the
> > document still be available for him to join the collaboration at a
> > later point in time?
>
> When Alice sends the proposition, a new tube is created on Bob's
> computer and the tube is in the state Tube_State_Local_Pending:
> http://telepathy.freedesktop.org/spec.html#type-Tube_State
>
> The tube remains in this state until Bob accepts or closes the tube.
>
> But Telepathy does not persist tubes: if Bob goes offline, the tube is
> closed and Alice has to offer a tube again.
>
> Simplified tube establishment diagram:
> http://people.collabora.co.uk/~alban/d/2008/04/tube.png<http://people.collabora.co.uk/%7Ealban/d/2008/04/tube.png>
> http://people.collabora.co.uk/~alban/d/2008/04/tube.msc<http://people.collabora.co.uk/%7Ealban/d/2008/04/tube.msc>
>
> > >  2. Bob was editing a document with 10 other persons yesterday. He
> > > want to continue now but he does not remember who was hosting the
> > > document. He browses the available documents from his contacts and
> > > selects the right one. Alice receives the request from Bob and
> > > accepts it. Abiword opens the Alice's document.
> >
> > So the token to edit a document is not persistent over collaboration
> > sessions? Bob has to request again, although he's already been
> > invited/authenticated before? I'd rather support use case 3. Alice
> > should be able to revoke Bob's credentials anyways, right?
>
> If we want to persist credentials and let users grant/revoke them, the
> Collab plugin has to implement it: Telepathy does not persist anything
> and does not offer any help for that.
>
> --
> Alban
>
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