Respond directly to incoming chats

[Martin Klapetek]

On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 17:50, David Edmundson
<david at davidedmundson.co.uk>wrote:

> Ok there are two solutions being discussed, so I'll summarise them
> both as I understand them.
>
> 1) We make a dataengine that acts as a Text Channel handler/observer,
> we make a plasmoid that talks to telepathy directly.
>

How would this work if you'd had a Text UI opened as well? Would the
conversation be "copied" to the Text UI too?


>
> 2) We mess about with the notifications that come out of my Text UI
> application, and try and make it feed information back to my
> application, (which then in turn talks to telepathy).
>
> There is no point in suggesting any changes to other projects until we
> decide on this.
>
> IIMO, solution 1 is better because:
>  - it requires no plasma changes (that I can think of at present)
>  - it doesn't rely on the Text UI being used for chats, we were trying
> to get away from monolithic apps.
>  - KNotify is crap.
>  - we can re-use this dataengine (or QML plugin?) to make a full chat
> widget plasmoid if someone wanted to.
>
>
--
Marty K.
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