[Telepathy] Telepathy and EFL

[Kai Huuhko]

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 13:53:11 -0500
Youness Alaoui <youness.alaoui at collabora.co.uk> kirjoitti:

> On 01/15/2012 06:51 PM, Danielle Madeley wrote:
> >> 20:38 <kuuko> Hello, I'm looking into rewriting a python app
> >> that's using the low level telepathy functionality. I understand
> >> that telepathy-python has been deprecated in favor of
> >> telepathy-glib python bindings. The thing is that the app is not
> >> using GTK+ for it's ui, instead it's EFL-based, so I am wondering
> >> if and how I can make use of telepathy-glib in such a client.
> > 
> > Your problem with using the telepathy-glib bindings will be
> > integrating with the GLib mainloop to receive events and callbacks.
> > I don't specifically know about EFL, but nowadays Qt and GLib share
> > a mainloop.
> > 
> > Possibly this blog post is useful to you:
> > http://blog.gustavobarbieri.com.br/2009/10/01/ecore-glib-main-loop-integration/
> > 
> > If you can't integrate the mainloops, you may have to stick with the
> > low-level telepathy-python bindings,
> > 
> 
> Yes, ecore integrates with the mainloop from glib so that shouldn't
> be a problem. It would be great to have an EFL based client for
> Telepathy. If you're interested, we (the aMSN team) already started
> (a few years ago) working on a python based client and you could
> easily port it to use telepathy instead of directly using papyon.
> I've wanted to do that for a while but haven't had time. We have an
> EFL front end for aMSN2 although I'm not sure of its current status.
> Interested ?

I shall take a look. Can you provide me with links to said clients?

For the project at hand, what I am interested in is specific
documentation and example code for telepathy-glib in python.

For now, I'm using as much of the existing code as possible, changing
the direct connection handling to MC5 specific features such as
account/connection handling through AM and channels through CD, using
telepathy-python client bindings.

It is only once I feel having sufficient fluency with the current code
base and tp-glib that I am prepared to begin the move to the latter
bindings.

The application I am working on is Apathy: <http://www.openapathy.org/>
I am not paid or sponsored by anyone for this work.

The time table I have set for the initial work is until the end of
January. At that point I shall reassess the situation.

Thank you for your answers and interest.