KTp

Introduction

Real time Communication has traditionally been a detatched feature of Desktop Computing, provided via stand-alone Instant Messaging clients with poor integration into the desktop experience. One of the primary goals of the KDE 4 series is to tighten integration between different components of the environment. The Realtime Communication and Collaboration (RTCC) project aims to tackle just this.

Our aims are:

• To integrate Real Time Communication deeply into the KDE Workspaces and Applications
• To provide a infrastructure to aid development of Collaborative features for KDE applications.

If you find these goals appealing, why not consider getting involved. C++ programming is *not* a necessity.

Technical Information

• The RTCC project uses the cross-desktop Telepathy Framework as the basis for our work.
• We should try and reuse code from Kopete/other already existing code wherever possibly. However, this should be balanced with the need to refactor/rewrite where appropriate to keep the new code true to Telepathy idioms.

Getting Involved

At this stage, the best way to get involved is to contact the existing team, either on IRC (#kde-telepathy channel on irc.freenode.net) or on our mailing list.

Getting Started

Before you start playing with/hacking on the Telepathy integration stuff, you need to get it all compiled: Instructions

The Plan

1) Build components equivalent to a traditional IM application, using Kopete code as much as possible, and integrating with other Pillars of KDE where appropriate.

2) Add advanced Telepathy features such as voice/video.

3) Build components and Convenience classes to enable real-time communication and collaboration features in any KDE SC app that wants them.

The Work

What we need to get done. This is divided into two sections:

• Phase 1 contains the tasks which *must* be completed in order for us to make a first release.
• Phase 2 contains other speculative major features that we will probably implement once Phase 1 is complete.

Phase 1

These are the essential tasks which must be completed before we can make a first release. Adding or removing tasks from this list requires a consensus on the kde-telepathy mailing list first. Click on a task title for further information about that task.

Status	Task	Developers	Source Code
IN PROGRESS	Account Management GUI	George Goldberg <grundleborg googlemail com>	Web SVN Link
IN PROGRESS	Chat Window App/Lib	Matt Rogers <> David Edmundson <kde davidedmundson co uk>
NOT STARTED	Logger Application
IN PROGRESS	Buddy List App	George Goldberg <grundleborg googlemail com> Dario Freddi <drf kde org> Help much appreciated	Web SVN Link
NOT STARTED	Desktop Wide Tp::Approver
IN PROGRESS	Telepathy Integration Daemon	George Goldberg <grundleborg googlemail com> Dario Freddi <drf kde org> Help much appreciated	Web SVN Link
DONE	Presence Plasmoid	Abner <>	Web svn

Phase 2

This section contains features that will *probably* be implemented once the first release has been made.

Status	Task	Developers	Source Code
NOT STARTED	Port Kopete plugins to Telepathy infrastructure
NOT STARTED	Add voice/video call support to Chat UI
SPECULATIVE	Add a internal Tp::Approver to Kopete