Re: Matrix as a replacement for Telepathy

[Mathieu Bridon <bochecha daitauha fr>]

On Fri, 2017-08-25 at 19:13 +0100, Matthew Hodgson wrote:
> My proposal is that one could run a background daemon on Linux which
> brokered the connection to your Matrix server (and perhaps handled
> fun stuff like clientside history persistence, e2e encryption voodoo,
> WebRTC audio playback/capture etc) and then expose that as part of
> the OS to desktop apps - effectively as a next gen telepathy
> equivalent.

Why bother with a Matrix server at all? Couldn't that local daemon
effectively be the Matrix server?


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Mathieu