unity-design team mailing list archive

["frederik.nnaji@xxxxxxxxx" <frederik.nnaji@xxxxxxxxx>]

for a layman.. does this mean circumventing Empathy completely on the long
run?

On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 04:54, Ken VanDine <ken.vandine@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> I have been working on telepathy-indicator, as a replacement for the
> current empathy patch we have been maintaining for messaging menu
> integration.
>
> I have hit a couple of issues, which I think make it not practical to
> get into Maverick.  Perhaps we can address the last couple of issues and
> get some good stabilization time in a PPA for Maverick+1.
>
>  * Should notifications be handled by empathy or telepathy-indicator?
>   - If empathy isn't running, but you are logged on with
>     mission-control-5, you will get indicators for new chats but no
>     notifications. Perhaps we should honor notification settings from
>     empathy, and if using the messaging menu suppress notifications
>     from empathy and display notifications via telepathy-indicator.
>
>  * telepathy-glib doesn't provide an API for PendingMessages and
>   PendingMessagesRemoved. These are needed to hide the indicator event
>   if the chat was focused without activating it from the messaging
>   menu. We also need to add an indicator when new messages arrive in an
>   existing chat, that isn't focused. As a work around we could connect
>   the signals directly over DBus, but I haven't investigated that yet.
>
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/TelepathyIndicator
>
> Feedback?  Thoughts?
>
> Thanks,
> --Ken
>
>
>
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana<https://launchpad.net/%7Eayatana>
> Post to     : ayatana@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana<https://launchpad.net/%7Eayatana>
> More help   : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
>