Re: Fwd: Proposed module: empathy

[Li Yuan <Li Yuan Sun COM>]

I  took a look at this today. Basically it is accessible, although there 
are some bugs. Please refer to 
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=545282 and 
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=545284. Also, the conversation 
history doesn't support caret mode. I remember pidgin has similar 
problem. Does Orca write a script to work around this?

Li

Willie Walker wrote:
> 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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