text channel

[Bert Freudenberg]

On Jul 21, 2007, at 22:06 , Simon McVittie wrote:

> On Sat, 21 Jul 2007 at 17:18:39 +0200, Bert Freudenberg wrote:
>>> Comment (by dcbw):
>>>
>>>  You don't actually need Tubes here.  Each activity has it's own  
>>> text
>>>  channel (even if it doesn't have tubes), which is what we were
>>> going to
>>>  use to do the corkboard stuff.  The text channel may possibly be
>>> abused
>>>  for this, though we'd have to check what the link-local stuff does.
>>
>> This sounds interesting. Looking for more details I found
>>
>> 	http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Activity_Sharing
>>
>> which doesn't really explain what is actually implemented right now,
>> nor what the actual API to use e.g. the text channel would be.
>
> Which activity and which bug# is this in?

https://dev.laptop.org/ticket/2304

> The text channel associated with
> an activity is intended for the overlay chat. I'm not keen on the  
> idea of
> abusing the text channel for messages that aren't human-readable chat.
>
> I know the collaboration API isn't very nice right now. Morgan  
> Collett will
> be working on improvements as soon as he finishes triaging Trial 2  
> bugs,
> and I plan to make some improvements to telepathy-python when/if I  
> have time.

Still my question remains - where can I learn more about the current  
API?

- Bert -