Comments on: Wishlist: Evolution Instant Messaging integration

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By: Srini

Srini — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 08:12:48 +0000

Andre,

IIRC, in 2003 there was a GNOME/Novell bounties and one of them was for this. There was a nice mock/animated image. Also a patch to work with ‘Gaim’ and Evo’s auto-completion was there. But it was broken later.

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Thilo (vinci) 's status on Sunday, 16-Aug-09 19:23:51 UTC - Identi.ca — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 19:24:21 +0000

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By: pvanhoof

pvanhoof — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 11:18:45 +0000

It’s called Nepomuk Contact Ontology (http://www.semanticdesktop.org/ontologies/nco/). For IM support (availability status, for example) we’d need to add some definitions on top of this, though. At the desktopsummit I had some initial discussions about this with a few Telepathy guys.

The way for Evolution, any application, to query this would then be SPARQL.

By: aklapper

aklapper — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 17:55:18 +0000

@Paul Johnson: Sure, just write that plugin.

By: Paul Johnson

Paul Johnson — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 17:10:56 +0000

Now can we get integration between Evolution and an IM client other than Pidgin? I’d like to synchronize to Gajim.

By: pinky

pinky — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 16:28:49 +0000

@aklapper:

One option would be not to add all IM addresses of the persons into the To-field of the mail composer but just an online status widget directly next to the To-field.
The To-field than shows only email addresses, because that’s what probably most users expect from their mail composer. Once you selected a mail address evolution looks in the address book for possible IM addresses. If the contact has one ore more IM addresses Evolution checks the online status and set the online status widget accordingly.

This way you also see if a contact to whom you wirte a mail is online and can than decide to contact him via IM, e.g. by clicking the online status widget.

By: Olivier Le Thanh

Olivier Le Thanh — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 14:07:23 +0000

The famous quest for the unification of contacts in the whole Gnome desktop.
The Galago, Solyant, Gimmie, People, .. projects all tried to achieves that in their own way. Sadly it seems that all of them are abandoned now.

By: aklapper

aklapper — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 13:48:44 +0000

Words are easy, but I don’t see any merge happening in the next years with regard to available manpower.
Google Wave is very interesting, I agree.

By: miik

miik — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 12:50:08 +0000

exactly, evolution/empathy should be merged.

why not use IM (XMPP for example) for mail-long messages?
do not make the user think about the protocol.

hopefully Wave will bring a change here.