Re: How to Access XMPP-Based Media Server

[Jon Kristensen <technology jonkristensen com>]

On 11/16/2010 09:37 AM, Guillaume Desmottes wrote:
> Le vendredi 12 novembre 2010 à 13:56 +0100, Jon Kristensen a écrit :
> > Now, I would like to make some kind of "binding" so that GNOME and other
> > free desktop environments can browse the contents of a Pontarius server
> > (so that you can see your and your friends media). Do you have any
> > advice on where I should start? We will be using Jingle and the
> > Publish-Subscribe XMPP extensions to do this. What is the lowest level
> > layer that I can/should work against here?
> As Cosimo said, Telepathy is the IM framework used in GNOME. It's very
> extensible so you should be able to write such extension. Gabble (the
> XMPP backend) now has a plugin system (called 'sidecars') that you could
> use.
>
> I suggest you to drop a mail on the Telepahy mailing list if you want
> more info : telepathy lists freedesktop org

I saw your e-mail on 
http://www.mail-archive.com/telepathy lists freedesktop org/msg04307.html so 
I'm a little bit worried. :-) I will send an e-mail to the list of I run 
into any problems!

> > Basically, I want to be able to work with the remote files as if they
> > were a local directory... Get file listings, download a file, upload a
> > file, rename a file, etc.
> Are you aware of http://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0214.html ?
> The spec has been deferred but maybe there are some interesting things
> to get there ?

Thank you for the link. We have decided to follow the [1]Extended 
Personal Media Network (XPMN) architecture as defined by Dirk Meyer.

> Regards,
>
>
> 	G.

Thanks a lot!

[1]: http://elib.suub.uni-bremen.de/diss/docs/00011878.pdf

Best,
Jon Kristensen