Hello guys,<br><br>Thanks Quim for the suggestions, they will be accounted for.<br><br>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?<br>
<br>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.<br><br>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.<br>
<br>Cheers.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 12:07 PM, Tim <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tim@samoff.com">tim@samoff.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
And, wait until you use Fremantle to see how you feel about all of this. ;)<br>
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Jose Manrique Lopez de la Fuente wrote:<br>
</div><div><div></div><div class="h5">> I don't really understand why should Canola add more and more<br>
> plugins... Canola is a nice music player, podcast option is nice, and<br>
> video is welcome, but other services are overloading it (IMHO).<br>
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> Of course, the graphical user interface looks nice, but I think it<br>
> would be better building apps using same graphical framework than<br>
> creating new plugins..<br>
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> 2009/5/12 Andrew Black<<a href="mailto:andrewfblack@gmail.com">andrewfblack@gmail.com</a>>:<br>
>> I've always thought that Canola could be used as almost a replacement for<br>
>> Hildon if the right plugins where available. Having a built in IM program<br>
>> that allows me to now have to shrink down canola to use it would be cool, I<br>
>> would love IRC support as well. xChat is good but having it all in one<br>
>> would be cool.<br>
>><br>
>> On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 11:57 PM, Quim Gil<<a href="mailto:quim.gil@nokia.com">quim.gil@nokia.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>>> Welcome Thiago!<br>
>>><br>
>>> ext Thiago Bolaum wrote:<br>
>>>> Hi,<br>
>>>> My proposal for GSoC this year is to build a IM Client plugin for<br>
>>>> Canola. It'll will use python-puple and continue the development of this<br>
>>>> libpurple's binding.<br>
>>> I was not very keen with the load of Canola specific projects presented<br>
>>> to GSOC. Not that I have anything against Canola and not even against<br>
>>> their good job mobilizing developers, but at some point it felt that<br>
>>> Canola would become a whole services framework per se (a similar feeling<br>
>>> to the one got with liqbase, but this is for another thread).<br>
>>><br>
>>> For instance, Canola-Bittorrent is a marriage that kind of makes sense.<br>
>>> Canola-IM... less so? It's fair to assume that most systems where Canola<br>
>>> will be installed will have Maemo's RTComm, Pidgin and/or some kind of<br>
>>> Telepathy related IM aplication. Why another IM?<br>
>>><br>
>>> The point of your project is good: make it easy for Maemo users to IM<br>
>>> with friends in several networks. I wonder if Canola is the right<br>
>>> platform for that (but fair enough if you project got approved) but I<br>
>>> hope a big % of your time can be invested improving the integration of<br>
>>> libpurple in the Maemo platform. At the moment this integration is not<br>
>>> precisely optimal and any help improving this situation is welcome.<br>
>>><br>
>>><br>
>>>> The idea is to improve python-puple along the whole development, adding<br>
>>>> features and correcting bugs as needed. Everything inside Canola is done<br>
>>>> using Python, and I will use the existing plugins as reference. I also<br>
>>>> intend to compile a comprehensive tutorial on how to build plugins,<br>
>>>> explaining what I've learned about Canola's architecture and framework<br>
>>>> in a wiki or blog.<br>
>>>><br>
>>>> I'll try to release a usable version as soon as possible, because one of<br>
>>>> the most important parts of the project is respond to community<br>
>>>> feedbacks. Features and bug fixing will be done with your help, guys! =)<br>
>>>> I'll count on you to use it extensively and report problems and ideas to<br>
>>>> me.<br>
>>>><br>
>>>> I'm currently a M. Sc. student, working with processors interconnection,<br>
>>>> at Unicamp (Universidade Estadual de Campinas) in SP/Brazil. My nick at<br>
>>>> freenode and garage is bolaum.<br>
>>>><br>
>>>> --<br>
>>>> Thiago 'bolaum' Borges Abdnur<br>
>>>> ----------------------------------<br>
>>>> "Trust no one..."<br>
>>>> - Deep Throat (The X-Files)<br>
>>>><br>
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>>> Quim Gil<br>
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>>> Maemo Software @ Nokia<br>
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