[Telepathy] Pictogram support (Montreal Summit)

[meg ford]

Hi,

Thanks for taking the time to respond, Guillaume.

>
>
> > > Thinking in people with language and communication disorders (i.e.
> > > people not able to read/write due to cognitive/mental disorders), it
> > > would be interesting to have a IM client able to compose, send and
> > > display messages made up pictograms + text.
>
> Out of curiosity (I know basically nothing about accessibility) isn't
> audio/video chat a good solution for those users?
>
> Sometimes it is a good option, but this type of program is also commonly
recommended for people with, for example, Cerebral Palsy
.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cerebral_palsy
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cerebral_palsy>Such users cannot always
speak.

> > > So, messages would look like this:
> > >
> > >
> http://1.bp.blogspot.com/___h4z60kN9fAk/TBnOIM61kUI/__AAAAAAAAAQ8/TM0fBXcTvyA/s1600/__cumplea%C3%B1os.png
>
> Doesn't work. :\
>
>
> > And here Meg's answer:
> >
> > >   I spoke to one of the developers of Telepathy about this, and here is
> > > what he said:
> > >
> > > Currently Telepathy does not support this type of feature. For example,
> > > users cannot send emoticons that they have drawn themselves. Therefore,
> > > you would need to write a library for this. If you are willing to write
> > > a library, they would be happy to have this feature.
>
> So yeah, at the moment Telepathy/Empathy doesn't support user-define
> emoticons ( https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25686 ). This
> shouldn't be implemented as a library but part of Telepathy directly. So
> you should:
> - Have an API in the Telepathy specification
> - Implement it in at least one connection manager, ideally Gabble, our
> XMPP backend.
> - Make use of this API in your app.
>
> Actually, if you want to just send a a bunch of images, the Messages
> ( http://telepathy.freedesktop.org/spec/Channel_Interface_Messages.html
> ) API could  be enough. But AFAIK Gabble doesn't support sending non
> text messages atm so you should still implement this.
>
>
> > > Secondly, they recommend that you write a seperate app for this
> feature,
> > > but use the Empathy contact list. They recommend that the feature be
> > > accessed through the accessibility menu.
>
> Telepathy is a pretty flexible framework so you could for example use
> your specific app for text chat but still use the other part of Empathy.
>
> > - Do (most commonly used) supported protocols allow for sending
> > arbitrary images along with text? Otherwise it would be pointless to try
> > to write a library for this.
>
> MSN certainly does; but telepathy-butterfly (our MSN backend) is kinda
> dead and we love freedom so XMPP would be our first choice. According to
> the bug I linked above Pidgin implements this using XEP-0231
> ( http://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0231.html ) so that should be doable.
> But best to check with a XMPP expert if that's the best way to do it.
>
> Again, thanks for explaining all of this. I appreciate your time.

Meg Ford
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