Re: Planning and such

On Sunday 07 April 2013 15:48:47 David Edmundson wrote:
> Hey,
> 
> Thanks for the edits. I looked over the article, whilst I really like
> the idea of adding an about section, I didn't really like the current
> form. It focussed on stuff we didn't do, rather than focussing on what
> we do well. It's a rock-solid stable project and I want that to come
> across.
> 
> Martin, Vishesh and I did a bit of editing and came up with this.
> 
> ---
> 
> KDE Telepathy is an instant messaging suite built upon the <a
> href="http://telepathy.freedesktop.org/">Telepathy</a> framework. KDE
> Telepathy provides text chat, video calls and file transfer services
> over many popular instant messaging platforms including Facebook Chat
> and Google Talk.  In addition KTp provides libraries for embedding
> instant messaging or real-time collaboration inside your application.
> 
> KDE Telepathy follows the philosophy that communication is a service
> offered to applications and the desktop. A more indepth technical
> explaination can be read over <a
> href="http://www.aosabook.org/en/telepathy.html">here</a>, but in
> practice, this means that KDE Telepathy consists of independent
> components. This allows KDE Telepathy to be well integrated with the
> rest of KDE by providing plasmoids and runner interfaces as well as
> providing the traditional contact list and chatting application. This
> level of desktop integration allows endless possibilities and a
> greater freedom of choice with how you interact with your contacts.
> Boundaries of Telepathy however do not stop at communication, the next
> step is collaboration, for example games can take advantage of
> Telepathy and provide a multi-player capabilities without the hassle
> of setting up network connections.
> 
> --
> 
> Also for the Kubuntu link we can link to this PPA:
> 
> https://launchpad.net/~telepathy-kde/+archive/ppa/
> 
> Thanks
> 
> David

Thanks a lot, David. I made some minor edits, see the article. One question: 
are there already examples of games taking advantage of Telepathy to provide 
multi-player stuff?


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