KTp/Packaging Guide
Packaging KDE-Telepathy is complicated for two reasons:
- Due to the modular nature of Telepathy, there are several distinct components, each in separate Git repositories.
- There are large numbers of runtime inter-dependencies to worry about.
This page attempts to ease packaging KDE-Telepathy in a useful way by explaining these issues.
Upstream packages
Several upstream packages are essential for KDE-Telepathy to work. These are the ones encountered as dependencies in a normal compilation:
telepathy-qt>= LATEST (currently 0.9.8), Build and Runtime Dependencytelepathy-mission-control>= 5.7.9 (currently 5.16.6), Runtime DependencyQJsonBuild Dependency forktp-auth-handlerQtGStreamerBuild Dependency forktp-call-uitelepathy-loggerBuild and Runtime Dependency fortelepathy-logger-qtkdelibs>= 4.7.0 (currently 4.14.0), Build and Runtime Dependency
The IM networks that KDE-Telepathy can connect to are determined by which Telepathy Connection Managers are installed. These are runtime-only dependencies, but which ones are installed will decide what IM networks KDE-Telepathy supports. The following are the ones we recommend—whether they are installed optionally or required is, of course, up to you.
telepathy-gabble>= 0.13.7 (currently 0.18.4), for Jabber/XMPP support, including Google Talk and Facebook, might very probably crash with earlier versionstelepathy-hazefor all the other protocols, as supported bylibpurpletelepathy-farstreamshould be compiled beforetelepathy-qtfor compilation ofktp-call-uito proceed
KDE-Telepathy packages
The different components of KDE-Telepathy are housed in separate Git repositories on KDE Invent's Network group. Some of these components are currently recommended to use, while others are not yet ready to be installed by users.
Ready components
These components have reached a level of maturity where they are interesting to users. We recommend providing these components at the current time.
| Name | Description | Dependencies |
|---|---|---|
ktp-common-internals
|
Internal library | telepathy-qt
|
ktp-accounts-kcm
|
Account management KCM | ktp-common-internals
|
ktp-approver
|
KDED module that shows a notification when somebody starts a chat with you | ktp-common-internals
|
ktp-text-ui
|
Text chat application | ktp-common-internals
|
ktp-contact-list
|
Contact list application – also provides icons and other data files that are shared among the other applications | ktp-common-internals
|
ktp-kded-module
|
Workspace integration module – provides several plugins like auto-away, the infamous 'Now listening to...' and also an error handler (important!!) | ktp-common-internals
|
ktp-desktop-applets
|
Plasma widgets – provides a presence applet which acts as the central system tray icon of traditional IM clients, a simplified contact list, an applet which represents a single contact and can be used to trigger actions like 'Send mail' and 'Initiate conversation', … | ktp-common-internals
|
ktp-filetransfer-handler
|
Background application for handling file transfers | ktp-common-internals
|
ktp-auth-handler
|
Background application for handling passwords and SSL/TLS certificates | ktp-common-internals
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ktp-send-file
|
Dolphin/Konqueror context menu plugin for easily sending files to contacts | ktp-common-internalsktp-filetransfer-handler (at runtime)
|
ktp-call-ui
|
Voice and video chat with contacts | ktp-common-internals
|
ktp-contact-runner
|
Show contacts in KRunner | ktp-common-internals
|
telepathy-logger-qt
|
Provides support for loading saved message logs | ktp-common-internalstelepathy-loggerQtGLib (from QtGStreamer)
|
- Required components for basic functionality:
- Highly recommended components (should be installed by default):
- Optional components:
Experimental components
Several other components are under development, however unless they are listed above, we do not recommend packaging them yet. This is because they are subject to major changes/removal at any time, and are not ready for end users.
Note about accounts-kcm-plugins
Our 0.1.0 release had an extra package called telepathy-kde-accounts-kcm-plugins. These plugins have now been merged into the main telepathy-kde-accounts-kcm package and are no longer shipped separately.
Release tarballs
The latest release is 0.9.0. Tarballs can be found at the KDE FTP mirrors.
Distributions
Here is a list of known packaging efforts for various distributions. If you are also doing packages for a distribution, please add your information here.