[Telepathy] Telepathy vs. e-mail

[Frederik Nnaji]

Hello Simon,

On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 11:59, Simon McVittie <simon.mcvittie at collabora.co.uk
> wrote:

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> On Wed, 30 Jun 2010 at 20:43:10 -0700, Dylan McCall wrote:
> > On a more serious note, though, I was imagining that in the context of
> > tubes a while ago. Indeed, it doesn't really fit the style of
> > Telepathy, but I can picture a turn-based game or collaboration app
> > working transparently through email. In that case it supports an
> > indefinite time delay, so one can stop what he's doing, come back
> > later and be dropped back at the previous state in the “conversation.”
>
> Telepathy is a real-time communication framework. Doing a Tubes sort of
> thing
> by e-mail might be more appropriate than Telepathy's Tubes for some
> applications, but that's not Telepathy any more :-)
>
> Similarly, it would be entirely possible to have a UI that mixes e-mails
> with
> real-time communication, and indeed microblogging and blogging. I think
> that's outside the scope of Telepathy, but I'd encourage that sort of UI to
> use Telepathy for the real-time bits!
>
> The reason there's mail notification in Telepathy is that some services
> (Google Talk, MSN) provide it as a side-effect of having online presence.
> If Empathy was a single monolithic client (like Pidgin or whatever),
> we'd be forced to choose between displaying the information in Empathy or
> discarding it, even though Empathy doesn't really have anything to do with
> e-mail.
>
> However, because of Telepathy's architecture, we can take an intermediate
> approach, which is to signal it on D-Bus and let a more appropriate UI deal
> with it.
>
> That doesn't make Telepathy an appropriate way to get mail notification
> from
> generic mail servers (IMAP/POP3) - for those, there's nothing of interest
> to
> Telepathy, just mail notification, so the UI should just talk to the server
> itself. I believe Ubuntu's messaging indicator either behaves like this, or
> will do so in future.
>

Thank you for your assessment ;)
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