immediate communication app for Plasma Active

Thomas Pfeiffer colomar at autistici.org
Sat Sep 21 15:45:36 UTC 2013


On Saturday 21 September 2013 08:27:42 Carl Symons wrote:
> This morning, I read
> http://snarkmarket.com/2009/3115
> 
> "...instead of talking to our computers, we’re typing on our phones."
> 
> For good reasons, Plasma Active is not a smartphone. Yet given the mobile
> nature of the devices that will use it, there should be some way of making
> immediate connections with other people.
> 
> I don't know what is now available or what people have planned. But
> something like PA-Skype or voice-controlled IRC would be nifty.

Right now we have pretty much nothing, but an SoK student is working on KDE 
Telepathy Active, which will support voice- and video-chat in the end as well 
(not sure if it will already be available in the first release, but Telepathy 
offers the necessary technology).
So something is on the way!


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