Le mardi 25 octobre 2011 à 21:52 +0200, Cesar Mauri a écrit : > Hi all,
Hi Cesar, > > 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? > > 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. G. _______________________________________________ telepathy mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/telepathy
