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Revision as of 00:31, 10 November 2012
This page is about planning and design of Telepathy's Chat Window
About Telepathy's new Chat Window
Maintainers
Maintainers: David Edmundson (d_ed) Close second in command : Dominick Schmidt (domme)
see code for email addresses
Getting involved
Bug/task list here: http://bit.ly/dLdd2W
Please mark something as assigned if you take on a task.
Reporting bugs
This component is open to reporting bugs, and any missing features that a standard normal chat program (like PSI) has. Make sure to select text-chat-ui as the component in bugzilla.
Crazy controversial ideas won't be considered for the first build.
Usage
Start a text chat using the telepathy-test-tool.
Design Decisions
Why not straight porting Kopete's window?
Kopete's Chat window is overly complex and deeply integrated with Kopete's internals, hence it is quite impossible to do a full porting without losing time and mental sanity. However, there are some things we can learn and even pick from Kopete.
Mistakes which we should not repeat
- I'm all for modularity, but having a KPart for each component statically referenced in the core is possibly something we don't want to repeat
- Think about the future: try having an higer level of abstraction and avoid using custom widgets wherever possible
Library reuse
Any public interface to the lib should be considered that it may have uses outside the application we ship. I intend for it to be easily placed into any application that uses telepathy.
Themes
Instructions on how to add themes to the chat window and a list of supported and unsupported ones.