Respond directly to incoming chats

[David Edmundson]

2011/7/13 Martin Klapetek <martin.klapetek at gmail.com>:
> 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?

Yes.
Or more accurately, When the CM gets a new message (incoming or
outgoing), it will get sent to all observers.

>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>
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