File Transfers in Preview Release

[Martin Klapetek]

2011/4/4 David Edmundson <david at davidedmundson.co.uk>

> In our first release of KDE Telepathy I want to have support of file
> transfers.
>
> I think it makes sense to use as much as possible from the KJobs
> (AcceptFileTransfer/OfferFileTransfer) that someone (Dario?/DrDanz?) has
> written in telepathy-kde (the lib)
>
> This leads to a few questions:
>
> 1) Which app should handle accepting an incoming file?
> the approver?
>
> 2) Are we still going to ship telepathy-kde in the non-nepomuk release?
>
> If so does anyone object to to modifying the jobs to the following:
>
>
>   OfferFileTransferJob(const Nepomuk::PersonContact& contact, QString filename, QObject* parent = 0);
>
>
>   OfferFileTransferJob(const Nepomuk::Person& metacontact, QString filename, QObject* parent = 0)
>
>
> + OfferFileTransferJob(const Tp::ContactPtr& contact, QString filename, QObject* parent = 0) <- this line would be new
>
>
> The first one would call the second one which would call the third one (in
> the internal private slots). To me it makes sense to read the flow of
> things, and exposes our jobs to every layer without any code
> duplication. This release we use the direct telepathy call, then in the
> future we use the two nepomuk ones as appropriate.
>
> OR
>
> Shall I make a new library just for this release which just copies and
> pastes code about from these classes (stripping out to be just the parts we
> want this time)
>
> OR
>
> Copy the KJobs (stripping out to be just the parts we want this release)
> into each app using it (a lot of code duplication, but it's only a
> prototype.)
>
> OR
>
> Not use the lovely KJobs and handle it all ourselves in the relevant app
> (which sounds like more work)
>
> OR
>
> Something else that I haven't thought of.
>
> 3) If I did get the jobs/a nice lib, I'd quite like to go for making it
> integrate into dolphin (service menu) as well as being in the contact list
> like DrDanz has demoed in the past. It helps show what telepathy is all
> about, and how it's more than just being a monolithic IM app. It should be
> damn easy to write with the jobs mostly pre-written and me able to use the
> accounts model with a tiny tweak in the AccountFilter from the contact list.
> Any thoughts/objections?
>

I'd help you with the Dolphin integration. I have this idea for some time
now. Also the Contact List is prepared for file transfers as well (there is
an overlay icon for that). The downside is, that I see the file transfer
capability with only few contacts. And the Telepathy protocols file transfer
support is not that great either (only XMPP if I'm not mistaken).

Marty
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