Re: Matrix as a replacement for Telepathy

[Felipe Borges <felipeborges gnome org>]

On Fri, Aug 25, 2017 at 12:15 AM, Alejandro HC <haevalencia gmail com> wrote:
> A comment as a user. Since Empathy ceased to be maintained, there has been
> little concern for the communication system that is available in gnome
> focused to end user (gnome-polari is targeted to IRC which is mostly used by
> developer communities).
>
> Matrix is great, but I feel it points to the same, so why not support GNU
> Ring in GNOME ... Ring is a project that aims to be a free replacement for
> Skype, in addition already has a good integration in gnome and it's easy to
> use, offering its own communication protocol it offers support for SIP.

Telepathy was designed as a framework which could have various
"Connection Managers" (in the telepathy terminology). A Connection
Manager is responsible of doing the actual communication with a given
server through a given protocol. Telepathy has connection managers for
XMPP, SIP, IRC, etc... see [0]. For instance, Polari uses Telepathy
for the IRC protocol.

All in all, if desirable, Matrix and GNU Ring could be connection
managers in Telepathy instead of standalone bits.

Specific clients could be created backed by Telepathy, e.g. no need to
rely on Empathy.

[0] https://telepathy.freedesktop.org/components/