Hi,
Al 30/10/11 19:30, En/na Mats Lundälv ha escrit:
Thanks Dannielle for this again very interesting
information!
I copy direct also to Cesar who initiated this discussion
(and who was accidently dropped from the send list for the
previous round) and to Peter Korn and some other friends in
the AEGIS project group. We won't be able to take on any
development around this within AEGIS, but it will be
interesting to keep this in mind in the planning for follow-up
actions further on.
Thanks Mats.
Cheers,
Mats
-----Danielle Madeley
<danielle madeley collabora co uk> skrev: -----
On Fri, 2011-10-28 at
23:19 +0200, Mats Lundälv wrote:
> Thanks both for this interesting information about
the preconditions
> for graphics in IM! The XEP-0231
> specs look quite promising (to an amateur in the
techy field, as I
> am)!
I agree.For me XEP-0231 also looks promising. In addition, some
major IM networks [1][2] are adding XMPP support and it seems
reasonable that many chat programs would support XEP-0231
eventually.
[1] http://xmpp.org/2011/06/skype-adds-xmpp-support/
[2]
http://xmpp.org/2011/09/microsoft-adds-xmpp-support-to-windows-live-apis/
To me, this seems like the
way forward. It's worth noting that Empathy
is modular, and so a different chat component could be
used to provide a
palette of images, or something, for people who wish to
chat this way,
which would prepare a message using inline graphics that
any user could
view.
This would require some work in Telepathy-Gabble and
Empathy to support
rich-text messages (which we want to do eventually
anyway).
Probably most users of pictogram enabled IM will want to use their
own AAC software such as SAW, Plaphoons or other. AFAIK those
programs are able to send the text associated with each symbol to
the application that has focus (the IM client in this case) . Not
sure if it is also possible to send more complex data (html or even
paste text + image).
> Another question
then: Is there any support currently for Ruby
> Annotation in any of these IM protocols?
> If not; Are there any discussions going on concerning
this afayk?
Not as far as I know, however, this is an XML
specification (as is
XMPP), and XMPP is designed to be extensible, so it would
probably not
be too difficult to draft a XEP (extension to XMPP) to
support it. We've
implemented our own feature drafts in Telepathy-Gabble
before (Tubes,
Muji), so I don't think another would hurt. It would allow
two Telepathy
users to chat together (assuming their UIs understood the
message type).
Other chat programs could choose to implement the XEP too.
--danni
Regards
César
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