On 04/03/2012 01:09 PM, Alex Waterman wrote: > I have been looking at possibilities of getting a native video chat app > going fro the XO's over the past couple weeks. I am thinking that it would > be really cool if Empathy interfaced with Sugar directly.
This is a great and worthy idea. > This mostly > means implementing a few DBus method calls, something that I think should > be pretty reasonable. Does this seem like something that is reasonably > doable for Empathy? Would there be any interest in seeing a Sugar version > for Empathy? IMHO the right way to do this is almost 100% from the Sugar side. There are already standards for the functionality in question, and Telepathy provides implementations of this functionality. Empathy and Sugar are both built on top of Telepathy, so they should be able to communicate using existing standards. The issue is mostly on the Sugar end; Sugar is simply not configured by default to support these standards. I haven't kept up to date with Sugar network implementations, but essentially what is needed is a (pretty simple) Sugar activity that exposes the standard functionality for video chat. Sugar already has a mechanism to identify specific activities as handling specific Telepathy functions/protocols, so that an incoming video call could be shown to the user as a "Video Chat Activity" session. (This is already in place for text chat and the corresponding "Chat" activity.) --Ben
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