[maemo-community] [GSoC 09] - IM Client For Canola Using Python-purple

[From: Thiago Bolaum]

Hello guys,

Thanks Quim for the suggestions, they will be accounted for.

Guys, this project was approved and it's being done. Instead of discussing
whether it's a good thing or not, we could focus on improving the idea to
fit the needs of everyone who's interested. And besides, people will always
have the option to use or not those plugins inside Canola. If they think
those will make their lives easier, why not having them?

I'm sure that all these projects will help improve Canola, not just by
adding features, but finding and fixing issues in it's core and all the
modules around it, such as terra or maybe even EFL.

I think that everyone is already starting the projects and are willing to
give their best to add cool features for our favorite player! So I wish good
luck for all GSoC students involved with Maemo, and I hope the community
helps and inspires us during the development.

Cheers.

On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 12:07 PM, Tim <tim at samoff.com> wrote:

> And, wait until you use Fremantle to see how you feel about all of this. ;)
>
> Tim
>
>
>
> Jose Manrique Lopez de la Fuente wrote:
> > I don't really understand why should Canola add more and more
> > plugins... Canola is a nice music player, podcast option is nice, and
> > video is welcome, but other services are overloading it (IMHO).
> >
> > Of course, the graphical user interface looks nice, but I think it
> > would be better building apps using same graphical framework than
> > creating new plugins..
> >
> > 2009/5/12 Andrew Black<andrewfblack at gmail.com>:
> >> I've always thought that Canola could be used as almost a replacement
> for
> >> Hildon if the right plugins where available.  Having a built in IM
> program
> >> that allows me to now have to shrink down canola to use it would be
> cool, I
> >> would love IRC support as well.  xChat is good but having it all in one
> >> would be cool.
> >>
> >> On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 11:57 PM, Quim Gil<quim.gil at nokia.com>  wrote:
> >>> Welcome Thiago!
> >>>
> >>> ext Thiago Bolaum wrote:
> >>>> Hi,
> >>>> My proposal for GSoC this year is to build a IM Client plugin for
> >>>> Canola. It'll will use python-puple and continue the development of
> this
> >>>> libpurple's binding.
> >>> I was not very keen with the load of Canola specific projects presented
> >>> to GSOC. Not that I have anything against Canola and not even against
> >>> their good job mobilizing developers, but at some point it felt that
> >>> Canola would become a whole services framework per se (a similar
> feeling
> >>> to the one got with liqbase, but this is for another thread).
> >>>
> >>> For instance, Canola-Bittorrent is a marriage that kind of makes sense.
> >>> Canola-IM... less so? It's fair to assume that most systems where
> Canola
> >>> will be installed will have Maemo's RTComm, Pidgin and/or some kind of
> >>> Telepathy related IM aplication. Why another IM?
> >>>
> >>> The point of your project is good: make it easy for Maemo users to IM
> >>> with friends in several networks. I wonder if Canola is the right
> >>> platform for that (but fair enough if you project got approved) but I
> >>> hope a big % of your time can be invested improving the integration of
> >>> libpurple in the Maemo platform. At the moment this integration is not
> >>> precisely optimal and any help improving this situation is welcome.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>> The idea is to improve python-puple along the whole development,
> adding
> >>>> features and correcting bugs as needed. Everything inside Canola is
> done
> >>>> using Python, and I will use the existing plugins as reference. I also
> >>>> intend to compile a comprehensive tutorial on how to build plugins,
> >>>> explaining what I've learned about Canola's architecture and framework
> >>>> in a wiki or blog.
> >>>>
> >>>> I'll try to release a usable version as soon as possible, because one
> of
> >>>> the most important parts of the project is respond to community
> >>>> feedbacks. Features and bug fixing will be done with your help, guys!
> =)
> >>>> I'll count on you to use it extensively and report problems and ideas
> to
> >>>> me.
> >>>>
> >>>> I'm currently a M. Sc. student, working with processors
> interconnection,
> >>>> at Unicamp (Universidade Estadual de Campinas) in SP/Brazil. My nick
> at
> >>>> freenode and garage is bolaum.
> >>>>
> >>>> --
> >>>> Thiago 'bolaum' Borges Abdnur
> >>>> ----------------------------------
> >>>> "Trust no one..."
> >>>> - Deep Throat (The X-Files)
> >>>>
> >>> --
> >>> Quim Gil
> >>> open source advocate
> >>> Maemo Software @ Nokia
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