Kopete and GSoC 2009
So Kopete got two slots for this year’s SoC. Tiago Salem Herrmann will be working on improving the MSN support and Pierre-Alexandre St-Jean will be working on turning the chatwindow into a library.
Congratulations to Tiago and Pierre-Alexandre and thanks to all other students that submitted proposals to Kopete SoC!
PS: For the ones that didn’t get accepted but still want to work on the projects, just send a mail to the Kopete mailing list and we will try to help mentoring the work.
Is Ink (WLM’s handwriting/drawing feature) support likely to appear any time soon? Tablet PC user here.
Yes, this is one of the topics for this Summer of Code projects.
Brilliant, thanks!
Those sound like nice projects… Kopete really needs some love because most KDE4 users prefer pidgin because it’s more polished and less buggy overall. *sigh*
Since they are trying to convert into libraries, would it not make some sense to integrate with libpurple?
That would leverage a LOT of effort.
They are converting just the chatwindow widget into a library, making it possible for other applications to make use of it (as an example, KDE games could use it for an in-game chat).
The complex part of the work is not really turning the chatwindow itself into a library, the problem is that it is making heavilly usage of some Kopete classes (like Kopete::MetaContact, as an example), so making it reusable by other applications requires some changes to make the participants info more generic.
This if I understand correctly what you were trying to mean by “integrating with libpurple”
The future isn’t libpurple, its Telepathy (in fact, one of Pidgin’s GSoC projects is to build a Telepathy plugin for Pidgin).
Maybe this is the wrong place to ask for this but did anything ever come of last years project to integrate jingle into kopete? It’s one of the things I was most looking forward to.
As far as I remember the implementation went very far, but you’d better ping Gof on IRC and ask him about that.
How about support for MS Office Communicator as well? I believe pidgin already has this support via pidgin-sipe plugin.
MS Office Communicator is not planned (at least not for this SoC proposal), but it might appear in the future.