[Decibel] Use of decibel for websms service accounts

[Tobias Hunger]

Hello Stephen,

On Sunday 18 November 2007, Stephen Kelly wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have been developing my first kde application for a while now which will
> use Kross scripts to send webtext messages through various providers. I
> would hope to replace the existing method of sending sms messages though
> kaddressbook.
>
> I have completed a working prototype which can successfully send messages
> using a kross script. So far I have simply used login details hard-coded
> into the application, so I'm now turn my attention to managing login
> account details for the scripts in a more sensible way. This capability
> seems to be one of the features of decibel, but I thought I'd get in
> contact to see if I have understood correctly and hopefully get some
> pointers on how to start using decibel in my application.

Basically Decibel is a high level wrapper around telepathy and its 
communication backends. So far I am not aware of any SMS communication 
manager for telepathy, so Decibel will not be able to send SMS messages at 
this time.

I have to admit that I have not thought too deeply about SMS sending yet.

The challenge will be mapping SMS to the telepathy APIs. Those assume that a 
communication channel is established between two (or more) people and 
messages are send down that channel. SMS is basically "fire and forget", with 
each message being disconnected from each other. There is no established 
channel of communication. It might be possible to treat a sequence of SMS 
messages as some "virtual channel", but when will you be able to close that 
channel?

Best Regards,
Tobias
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