[sugar] Presence Service

[Guillaume Desmottes]

Le jeudi 20 novembre 2008 à 12:04 +0100, Bert Freudenberg a écrit :
> 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 :)

The new mission control (5.x) will implement a standardised D-Bus API as
any other Telepathy component.
Some of these API's were already merged to the Telepathy specification
[1].

	G.



[1] http://telepathy.freedesktop.org/spec.html