[Kde-games-devel] KDE Games Report from Akademy 2008

[Josef Spillner]

On Sunday 17 August 2008 14:10:21 Richard Hartmann wrote:
> The online gaming stuff could be extended to allow arbitary data to be
> exchanged. Suddenly, you have a ready-made collaboration tool which
> could be used in several scenarios. And it even includes chat and basic
> access management!

Sounds interesting, but will certainly not happen for 4.2. Now that table 
management works, one widget still missing is the chat widget. For that I plan 
to use the one already in libkdegames, although as outlined before this should 
be replaced by a more powerful and beautiful one. Maybe we could have an 
interface approach similar to the hexeditor/texteditor interfaces in kdelibs.

> Maybe the chat part could piggyback onto an IRC, jabber or whatever
> module, as well?

Yes, there are already integration plans with Jabber and a prototype for a 
server-side Jabber extension component has been developed in plain C++ using 
the gloox library. But it would need volunteers to drive that forward faster 
than I could do at the moment. If anybody is interested drop me a mail so I 
can guide you into that topic :)

Josef