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From: Gregory Haynes <g...@greghaynes.net>
Date: Sat, 30 May 2009 07:05:26 +0000
Local: Sat, May 30 2009 5:05 pm
Subject: Re: Communication while Editing.
On Saturday 30 May 2009 05:42:55 Roger Pixley wrote: > Sending this out to the list to garner some mindmash. Currently libinfinity I did some digging around in the libinfinity API for communication features, > (and hence libqinfinity) supports communication by Jabber on a server > level. and AFAICT there are no document or server level user to user chat facilities in the library. This could be (relatively) easily added on a document level via a note plugin without having to modify libinfinity. Ill send out a message to Armin to make sure this is correct. > For quite a few reasons I think that having an option to have it on On a server level this would certainly mean a major API change, but I dont see > a document level is a good idea. If you think of a large assembly such as > Akademy or GCDS (Side Thought: How do you abstract that? *DS?) where you > would like an easy one connect server for remote collaborators but then > having all the chatter for the various projects and problems being > discussed broadcast to everyone is unbearably confusing. Or further down > the line when this is KDE wide and many types of clients can connect to it > (also FOSS now rules the world cause the others ignored then laughed then > fought ) A fairly large business would want to use something like this > internally to tie together teams. Even if there is one server per > department you would want discussions to be more localized to say a group > or a document. > So having said that I think that a proposal currently to implemt proper why this would be difficult to implement on a document level. User information is already provided when joining a document, so maybe a chat facility could be retrieved after joining a session? > My proposal is to allow messages which are sent to be -- > optionally tagged then clients can read the tags on the messages and react > as they see fit. Clients who have no idea about the tags will just drop > them Clients who know but don't really care can possibly simply display the > tags Clients that know and care can create channels or drop entire messages > of the user doesn't care about them etc. > If anyone has another solution to the issue or sees the issue in a > Roger Pixley Gregory Haynes You must Sign in before you can post messages.
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