Fwd: Proposed module: empathy

[Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>]

Hi All:

Has anyone here taken a look at empathy and how accessible it may be?  The usual applies: 1) honoring theming, 2) keyboard traversal, 3) access via Orca, etc.

Will

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Vincent Untz <vuntz gnome org>
> Date: July 27, 2008 6:31:16 PM EDT
> To: desktop-devel-list gnome org
> Subject: Proposed module: empathy
>
> Homepage: http://live.gnome.org/Empathy
> svn/git/bzr/...: http://svn.gnome.org/viewcvs/empathy/
> Proposal on d-d-l: http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2008-March/msg00196.html
> License: GPLv2 or later (I believe)
>
> Short description:
> ==================
> Empathy consists of a rich set of reusable instant messaging widgets,
> and a GNOME client using those widgets. It uses Telepathy and Nokia's
> Mission Control, and reuses Gossip's UI. The main goal is to permit
> desktop integration by providing libempathy and libempathy-gtk
> libraries. libempathy-gtk is a set of powerful widgets that can be
> embeded into any GNOME application.
>
> Requires new external dependencies:
> ===================================
> libtelepathy-glib and libmissioncontrol-client
> (libmissioncontrol-client will disappear during the next cycle)
>
> Summary so far:
> ===============
> + (would be nice to get an overview of what has changed since 2.22
> proposal -- I believe Xavier will send something about this)
> + hosted on the GNOME infrastructure
> + following the GNOME release schedule
> + supported by many people, but a few -1 were sent too
> + lots of discussion about the licensing issues: people really want
> the libraries to be LGPL. See below for details/updates about this.
> + comments about bad support for IRC, but also feelings that this
> shouldn't block the inclusion.
> + no good documentation for the libraries (although see the updates
> below)
>
> Reminder of the 2.22 decision:
> ==============================
> - great goals
> - more work is needed to add some features, and make it a bit more
> stable (especially since people are used to something working very
> well for IM), and probably add a bit more integration if possible
> - (some people would really like the keyring to be used)
> - would really be great to fix the licensing for the libraries since,
> at some point, we might want to push the libraries in the platform
> - we encourage to propose it again for 2.24
> => reject
>
> Some update about those items (correct me if I'm wrong):
> + about features & stability: feedback is welcome. Xavier will
> probably send an update.
> + the keyring is now used (afaik).
> + I believe that the plan is to slowly move the empathy libraries into
> telepathy and that code might get rewritten for this because of LGPL
> needs. "Only" a promise so far, though. This might mean we should
> only consider the empathy application for inclusion (and try to
> forget about libraries).
>
> Vincent
>
> -- 
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