Season of KDE proposal: Collaborative edition in Kate

[Aleix Pol]

On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 10:49 AM, Daniele E. Domenichelli <
daniele.domenichelli at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> On 05/05/2011 11:26 PM, Marc Mauri Alloza wrote:
> > I'm preparing my proposal for Season of KDE. This week I've been
> > talking with people of kde-telepathy and kobby to get information
> > about how this should be implemented. I have a doubt about where
> > this should be implemented. Maybe inside KatePart or as a subclass
> > of KatePart? The goal is that my work could be reused easily in
> > other projects with a minimum (or zero) impact on code of the
> > application that wants to adopt the collaborative edition features.
>
>
> I don't know where this should be implemented, probably in KatePart, but
> you should ask this to kate people...
> Anyway, how do you plan to use telepathy with kobby and/or the infinote
> protocol?
> I had a look at this last summer (before my gsoc proposal) and I didn't
> come to an easy solution...
>
> You could tunnel the protocol using a streamtube, (and that's quite easy
> to do) but then you get a protocol that handles connection, chat, etc.
> transported into another protocol that handles connection, chat etc, and
> that's quite ugly and redundant.
>
> Another option is to support only a subset of the inifinote protocol
> stripping all the unneeded stuff and let telepathy handle connection and
> chat and just use a streamtube to transport the collaborative editing
> messages, but I didn't investigate the protocol that much and I don't
> know if this is possible.
>
> Last option is to strip the infinote protocol from the unneeded stuff,
> write a XMPP XEP (there is probably something similar already), add a
> new channel type to the telepathy-spec and implement it in
> telepathy-glib, telepathy-gabble, telepathy-qt4 and finally use it in kate!
>
> Last one is probably the hardest method, but definitely the cleanest...
> and that's why I support it. :-D
> Unluckily it is also the less related to kde (and that's also the reason
> why I abandoned the idea of collaborative editing using telepathy in kde
> for last summer gsoc).
> If you choose this method you should definitely talk about this with
> xmpp and telepathy developers before starting.
>
>
> Cheers,
>  Daniele
>
>
> P.S. Please don't feel discouraged from this, I really support the idea
> of collaborative editing using telepathy, but I don't like the idea of a
> quick hack just to make it work! ;)
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I'm not sure how this works but sounds to me like we're making it slightly
more complicated than it is. Why isn't a telepathy socket enough to send
information?

I've always understood that telepathy can handle this kind of connection...
Does it clash with the rest of services?

Aleix
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