[sugar] Presence Service

[Bert Freudenberg]

On 20.11.2008, at 11:52, Morgan Collett wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 12:24, Bert Freudenberg  
> <bert at freudenbergs.de> wrote:
>> On 20.11.2008, at 10:17, Morgan Collett wrote:
>>> Collabora have therefore suggested replacing Presence Service with a
>>> combination of Mission Control and moving functionality up into
>>> sugar-toolkit and the activities themselves, so that everything is
>>> talking Telepathy and not some arbitrary abstraction of an  
>>> abstraction
>>> framework.
>>
>>
>> Will the DBus interface to Mission Control be available by then? I
>> only saw a year-old proposal for it. If not, it will take a
>> considerable amount of boring work to migrate Etoys.
>
> The plan would have to include providing the same or similar API for
> non python activities as the current PS API - without failing to
> remove unnecessary indirection and abstraction...


Just to clarify: I was specifically referring to a D-Bus API. An  
activity written in C could easily use the existing C-level API to  
Mission Control. Not all "non-Python" activities are created equal :)

- Bert -