[Sugar-devel] [PATCH sugar] Anly approve and not handle channels in the shell, part of OLPC #10738

[Simon Schampijer]

On 04/14/2011 07:22 PM, David Van Assche wrote:
> awsome stuff on all the telepathy related stuff... I'm no expert, but looks
> like things became more homologised and is now used more in line with the
> way empathy and others run under gnome to use telepathy... Maybe I'm reading
> too much into this, but does this effectively mean that we can now
> communicate with any telepathy based client on other systems from a sugar
> based system?
>
> Perhaps you could explain how this effects activity sharing across
> activities on other oses (say chat client on gnome with sugar chat?)
>
> kind regards,
> David Van Assche

It is true that with Tomeu's work [1] we are more streamlined since we 
removed an extra layer and the shell talks to telepathy now directly. 
Talking from non-sugar clients like empathy to Sugar was actually 
working already before [2], I just fixed it again.

Regards,
    Simon

[1] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/RemovePresenceService
[2] 
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/0.82/Notes#Chat_with_non-sugar_Jabber_clients