Ivan Čukić

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Telepathy - straight of the Shelf

Published by Ivan Čukić in the KDE development section, on 5 April 2011

I’ve been interested in Telepathy for some time now. And every time it was mentioned on PlanetKDE, I wanted to test it. Some things worked, some not. Now, that the important ones are functional - system settings module, contact list, chat window - I decided to start the preparations for Lancelot to switch from Kopete to Telepathy.

So far, I’ve managed to display the list of accounts, and it will soon show the contacts as well.

Plans for 4.7

AFAIK, Telepathy will not be replacing Kopete in 4.7, so Lancelot will still be using the old (current) contacts model.

With that said, there will be a possibility to use the Telepathy model in the Shelf applet - it will be available via the configuration dialogue.

For Lancelot, I’ll probably make a hidden (non-UI) option.

That’s all for now.

Comments:

David Edmundson
Hey, that looks awesome.
Feel free to get in touch with us (The KDE Telepathy project) anytime, we've got some really useful models to use (and model filters). Plus some really exciting future plans to map not just individual IM contacts, but aggregated people from using data from all sources.
thorGT
Hello! It's really nice to hear that Telepathy actually *is* being developed and that the project has even reached some important milestones, but, while this is *completely* OT, you'd better pay more attention to the screenshots you use to illustrate your idea. That is, do you know who "Берия" is? He's a dark person from one of the darkest episodes of the Soviet (better say Russian) history, and is hated by millions and even hundreds of millions of people. You better avoid politics, programming and Open Source in general are absolutely politically agnostic, at least I'd like to believe in that.
Ivan Čukić
@<a href="#comment-25370" rel="nofollow">thorGT</a>: Heh, yeah, I though to blur it out, but then decided against it. After all, it is just a name. And I *do* share my name with Иван Грозный :)
It is a long story how it got there (it was something not far from this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlmGknvr_Pg) - people get strange nicknames sometimes, and those get stuck on IM networks you don't use :]
If anyone was offended, I apologize. I've removed the last letter just in case someone was...
BartOtten
I wondered how you got it all rolling...tried to compile contactlist but it failed on me (ot I did on it)
Would like tot test the Lancelot-Telepathy-shelf :D
Keith Rusler
@Ivan I've always liked your Plasma work. I can't wait to see it become more :). What was the far left icon (number of online contacts?)
Ivan Čukić
@<a href="#comment-25374" rel="nofollow">BartOtten</a>: We'll I guess it will be testable in the near future :)
@<a href="#comment-25375" rel="nofollow">Keith Rusler</a>: The left one is shelf with the number of unread mails, the middle one kopete's online contacts, and the right one telepathy accounts (to be contacts).
thorGT
@Ivan: My apologies as well, sure you may not have known all the personalities of the crazy Russian history :) But anyway, thank you for your attention.
Ivan Čukić
@<a href="#comment-25377" rel="nofollow">thorGT</a>: I knew about him and that he was the head of the secret police (one of the reasons I was assigned that nickname) just didn't know that he is that disliked.
Although I could have guessed - which secpol head is liked, right? :)

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