Hello Simon, On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 11:59, Simon McVittie <[email protected] > wrote:
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA256 > > 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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