[Decibel] demos problems

[Tobias Hunger]

> Hello to everyone,
>
> I compiled and installed decibel V 0.2.0 and I want to try it's  demos
> program.

Great!

> I launched "decibel" server and then I run decibel_listcms_demo but this
> doesn't show anything. How can I register a connection manager?

That is a bit tricky... If you happen to run ubuntu/feisty you can just
install telepathy-gabble and are done:-)

If you build the telepathy stuff yourself or use some other distribution:

Telepathy relies on the installer of a connection manager to put a
.manager-file into one of these directories:
    ~/.telepathy/managers
    /usr/local/share/telepathy/managers
    /usr/share/telepathy/managers

This file tells telepathy about the existence of the connection manager.
For jabber you probably need the gabble CM. That features a .manager
containing a line reading:
BusName=org.freedesktop.Telepathy.ConnectionManager.gabble

In addition to that there must be a .service file in some directory D-Bus
knows about so that the bus knows about the name the connection manager
wants to listen to and how to start the CM once somebody wants to talk to
the CM. This .service file must go into ~/.local/share/dbus-1/services or
/usr/share/dbus-1/services (maybe /usr/local/share/dbus-1/services is
valid as well, I am not sure about that).

All this is a bit annoying, but a end user will just install a package
which will do all this automatically, so it should not bother anybody but
developers:-)

> I would try to write a simple graphical application to enable chat with
> jabber protocol and so I want to do it with line command demos before
> starting it.

Wow, cool!

Can I tempt you in joining our Hackathon (17./18. of March) in Darmstadt,
Germany?

PS: I just tagged the 0.3.0 release;-)

Best Regards,
Tobias