Re: [Gaim-devel] Integration with other GNOME desktop applications

[Philip V. H. <spa...@fr...>]

On Sat, 2004-11-20 at 13:43 -0500, Mark Doliner wrote:
> On Sat, 20 Nov 2004 14:27:15 +0100, Philip Van Hoof wrote
> > Okay. I don't think time is already very important. Building this fancy
> > thing called "desktop integration" is not something thats going to
> > happen over one night. The important thing, however, is people like you
> > who are willing to make it happen.
> 
> Could you give some specific examples of the kinds of desktop integration you
> would like to see in Gaim?

Because last person only talked about integration with filesharing
applications (which is not really the first thing that comes into my
mind when I talk about desktop integration), I'll post some examples.

o. Linkage of your Buddy records with the contactlist records
	o. Automatically retrieve/update and offer public information
	   that can go into the contactlist

	o. Presence notification in Evolution. When sending an E-mail to
	   one of your available/online buddies, you will see his IM
	   icon which sais something about his status in the upperright
	   corner of the E-mail composer window. When reading an E-mail,
	   same thing. When reading/managing tasks, calendars and
	   contactlist-records you see this IM icon. 
		http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=127546

o. Linkage with Tasks and meetings (the calendar)
	o. Show in Gaim what tasks and meetings are related to the
	   person whom you are chatting with. Look at the Clock-applet
	   of a recent GNOME Desktop. The relation between Time and
	   calendar-items has already been integrated with eachother.
	   The other entities of a task/meeting are it's attendees.
	   Those attendees will probably also sit in the buddy-list of
	   Gaim. So we can do integration.

o. Tight integration with gnomemeeting
	o. Show the video-conferencing capabilities of a available user
	   (can you call the user?, does he have video-conferencing
	   software?)

	o. Where the user-icon in a IM/chat-window gets placed now could
	   come a videostream if available and wanted at that time by
	   both users.

o. Integration with Evolution meetings, gnomemeeting and Gaim

	o. Evolution could at the start of a meeting automatically
	   create a Jabber-channel and could (if so desired per
	   attendee) automatically make the attendees join that channel
	   by launching/user Gaim's features. Once all attendees are
	   ready, a videoconferencing meeting could automatically start.

	o. Of course, if no videoconferencing is desired, make it easy
	   to schedule "instant messaging"-only meetings.

o. Integration with E-mail in general
	o. Make it (very) easy to attach an IM-log to an E-mail



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