[Telepathy] Telepathy-gtk roadmap

[Sjoerd Simons]

On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 04:05:37PM +0100, Thomas H.P. Andersen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> With all the telepathy-based ideas for gsoc in
> live.gnome.org/SummerOfCode2010/Ideas I was hoping that we could
> create a roadmap for making telepathy-gtk a reality. I would much
> rather point a potential student to telepathy-gtk and ask them to
> implement a needed feature or binding there instead of creating
> project and language specific contact selectors like last year.

:)

> You devs probably know best what should go into telepathy-gtk and how
> best to do it. What I was hoping to have was something like:
> - Implement a drop down widget with contacts. You probably want to do
> this using api x/y/z
> - Presence indication. You probably want to do this using api x/y/z
> - Only show contacts with needed contact capabilities. Use api x/y/z,
> look at example foo
> - Add contact avatars
> - Filter contacts on supported CM's
> etc etc

All of the above are really needed indeed :)

> A students proposal for telepathy integration i gnome-games could then
> be split into two parts. Improve tp-gtk with features 1, 2, and x from
> the roadmap + add multiplay support for game foo using widgets from
> tp-gtk. I think that it would both make it a easier for students to
> collaborate on common functionality and also send a clear message that
> we want the relevant parts to created in a way that can be accepted
> upstream.

> Is there an official repo for the work that has already been done on
> tp-gtk? If there are any easy bugs to fix in the existing code it
> might be nice to point students to that for the obligatory patch
> required from students in GNOME part of gsoc.

There hasn't been much work on it yet (there are bits and pieces in empathy
that can be re-used.

One bit i'd really like to see before we start doing an official contact
chooser is to have proper API in tp-glib to get the contact list as that's a
lot of work client apps shouldn't have to do in the first place.

The other thing that's currently being worked on is a meta-contact abstraction
for telepathy. While this doesn't necessarily block the contact list selector
it's definately something to keep in mind.

  Sjoerd
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