KDE Telepathy and Kubuntu

[Daniele E. Domenichelli]

Hello Jonathan,

On 09/03/12 11:26, Jonathan Riddell wrote:
> We are still pondering if it's suitable for our forthcoming 12.04
> release (due April) which is long term support so we tend to be nervous about
> changing to new programmes.  I'm all for it but I have a Kubuntu dev
> community to convince :)

We are planning the 0.4 release for the April, 14th, so it could be in 
time for Kubuntu 12.04. It would be great if it was the default IM client!


> It seems that message indicator support is a bit of a dealbreaker for
> many as it is a major UI change to drop that.  Kopete and Quassel have
> support for this built in which Konversation has a patch for it

Unfortunately the feature freeze is very close (March, 17th), and we 
have still a lot of things to do, but if Martin (the evil release 
manager) agrees, we could delay it for a few days (or make an exception 
for that) if message indicator support is being developed but is not 
ready. Any volunteer? By the way, if any Kubuntu developer is planning 
to do it, we will be very happy to help and to merge it.


> "Telepathy Contact List" is totally going to confuse people.  Not  that
 > "Kopete" is much better, but at least current users are used to it."

Agreed, we are using "KDE IM ..." for everything, and we are trying to 
avoid "Telepathy" (the user is not supposed to know that he is using 
"Telepathy"), we should just change that to "KDE IM Contacts (like the 
window title) in the .desktop file.



> Another request is
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ktp-approver/+bug/947430
> "Clicking on bubbles in KDE telepathy notifications doesn't work"

This is probably an upstream bug in plasma [1]. Unfortunately until the 
bug upstream isn't fixed we cannot do anything about.
But I think that if we manage to get the message indicator support, this 
won't be a real issue, for Kubuntu, because user will get the 
notification from indicator instead of from the approver...



> There are problems a few other requets Kubuntu people have.  These are
> only requests to help convince the community to change to KDE
> Telepathy for 12.04.  We know you're all busy on 100 others things so
> if you don't want to look at the above in the near future that's very
> understandable, Kubuntu will certainly change for 12.10 anyway.

So, basically the main request is message indicator support, I think we 
can do it! If nobody wants to implement it, I can try, but I'm quite 
busy at the moment and I have a lot of stuff that I need to finish 
before the feature freeze, so I cannot guarantee that it will be ready 
for 0.4...


Cheers,
  Daniele

[1]https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=289126