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2007-04-14 05:03:24 |
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Hello!
My name is Mihai Balan and I'm a student in my 3rd year of computer science at the "Politehnica" University of Bucharest. I have applied to this year's Google Summer of Code (
http://code.google.com/soc ) with an idea for SIP-Communicator, that is, implementing RSS feeds support in the client. I haven't been accepted, but I still consider it a good idea, and would like to see it implemented in Kopete (as it seems that SIP will have it done sooner or later  ). I'm willing to give it a go, but I would really appreciate yout feedback on the idea. (Do you thinks it's a viable idea? Do you consider it outside the scope of Kopete? etc).
In a few words, here how I see it should work: the plugins offers a way to add RSS feeds to the contact list. These feeds are presented as permanently online contacts. Once every _n_ minutes (configurable amount of time), the feeds are checked for updates and/or new items. If new items are found, a message window from the respective "contact" pops up with the content of the new item. One could also be able to explicitly request checking for updates. Another feature that could be really nice would be the ability to send a HTTP POST response by simply typing a reply in the message window. That could be useful in the case of blogs RSS feeds where such responses could be used to post comments on the original post.
For more details, my application - containing more technical & GSoC oriented details (some of them pertaining strictly to SIP Communicator) - is available at
http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dgn4pwr_47crh3b4
Thank you for your time,
Best of wishes,
Mihai B.
PS: Does Kopete have a IRC channel I could lurk on? :p (I've seen IRC nicknames on the contact page but no IRC channel/server address)
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2007-04-14 12:54:07 |
On Saturday 14 April 2007, Mihai Balan wrote:
> PS: Does Kopete have a IRC channel I could lurk on? :p
(I've seen IRC
> nicknames on the contact page but no IRC channel/server
address)
irc.kde.org, channel #kopete
For the rest of your mail, I leave that to others to judge.
I am a bit unsure
about the scope of Akonadi, but I somewhat expect RSS feeds
to be handled by
Akonadi too, you may want to look into this.
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| Re: Plugin idea |
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2007-04-14 14:12:49 |
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Seems I haven't got myself quite clear.. What I wanted to do (and asked for your opinion about) was simply a RSS plugin for Kopete. A plugin that would allow a user to stay in touch with his favourite RSS feeds without needing to have an alternate RSS aggregator running (aKregator, karss, etc.)
On 4/14/07, Martijn Klingens < klingenskde.org">klingenskde.org> wrote:
On Saturday 14 April 2007, Mihai Balan wrote:
>; PS: Does Kopete have a IRC channel I could lurk on? :p (I've seen IRC
> nicknames on the contact page but no IRC channel/server address)
irc.kde.org, channel #kopete
For the rest of your mail, I leave that to others to judge. I am a bit unsure
about the scope of Akonadi, but I somewhat expect RSS feeds to be handled by
Akonadi too, you may want to look into this.
--
Martijn
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| Re: Plugin idea |
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2007-04-14 16:37:03 |
On Saturday 14 April 2007, Mihai Balan wrote:
> Seems I haven't got myself quite clear.. What I wanted
to do (and asked for
> your opinion about) was simply a RSS plugin for Kopete.
A plugin that would
> allow a user to stay in touch with his favourite RSS
feeds without needing
> to have an alternate RSS aggregator running (aKregator,
karss, etc.)
Sure, but it would be a waste to reinvent all code again and
not reuse other
KDE technologies, no? ;)
I'm not sure if Akonadi covers RSS next to mail and
organizer, but if it does,
you surely want to use it as a backend. Akonadi is just a
backend, not a GUI
after all.
Anyway, it was just a thought...
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Martijn
Confucius say: One minute shut mouth worth one hour
explanation.
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| Re: Plugin idea |
 
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2007-04-16 17:34:31 |
Le samedi 14 avril 2007, Mihai Balan a écrit :
> Hello!
Hi,
Sorry for my late reply.
> My name is Mihai Balan and I'm a student in my 3rd year
of computer science
> at the "Politehnica" University of Bucharest.
I have applied to this year's
> Google Summer of Code ( http://code.google.com/soc
) with an idea for
> SIP-Communicator, that is, implementing RSS feeds
support in the client. I
> haven't been accepted, but I still consider it a good
idea, and would like
> to see it implemented in Kopete (as it seems that SIP
will have it done
> sooner or later ). I'm
willing to give it a go, but I would really
> appreciate yout feedback on the idea. (Do you thinks
it's a viable idea? Do
> you consider it outside the scope of Kopete? etc).
All contribution are always welcome, and I'm going to help
you if you are
willing to implement it. (I mean I'll reply your questions)
Anyway, I don't think that Kopete is the right application
to read RSS feed.
I don't see the problem of running two separate application
for two separate
tasks.
We plan to maybe be integrated in Kontact, that would make
only one "window"
if this is the problem.
This is just my opinion anyway.
Thanks for your interest in Kopete.
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Olivier
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