Re: Planning and such

On Sun, Apr 7, 2013 at 5:10 PM, Jos Poortvliet <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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.
>
Perfect, thanks a lot :)

> One question:
> are there already examples of games taking advantage of Telepathy to provide
> multi-player stuff?

Fully working in playground and scratch repositories, yes.
Released, no.

David
>
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