Phil Bull
philbull@gmail.com 2012

# Kommunikation

Instant messaging, networking, social media, email, and calendaring support.
Mario Blättermann
mario.blaettermann@gmail.com 2009-2012
Christian Kirbach
christian.kirbach@gmail.com 2011, 2012.
Aljosha Papsch
al@rpapsch.de 2012

# Kommunikation und soziale Netzwerke

Verbindungen zu Sofortnachrichtendiensten und sozialen Netzwerken

Set up multi-protocol connections with web services or other clients

Umgang mit Mail, Online-Kontakten und Kalenderdiensten

Get your users connected and communicating with their friends and contacts through instant messaging, social media, and email. GNOME's extensive communications stack gives you high-level, abstracted access to complicated instant messaging and email protocols. For more specialised communication needs, there's access to the nuts and bolts through lower level APIs too.

Empathy instant messaging client

# Was können Sie tun?

Verwenden Sie Telepathy für eine Anbindung an Sofortnachrichten-Dienste. Es bietet eine mächtige Umgebung für den Umgang mit den Sofortnachrichten-Kontakten des Benutzers und bietet Unterstützung für eine Vielzahl von Nachrichtenprotokollen. Unter Telepathy werden alle Konten und Verbindungen über einen D-Bus-Sitzungsdienst verarbeitet, der tief in der GNOME-Arbeitsumgebung verankert ist. Anwendungen können diesen Dienst verwenden, um mit den Kontakten zu kommunizieren.

Create multi-player games or collaborative editors that integrate with the desktop-wide instant messaging services. With the Telepathy Tubes API, you can tunnel an arbitrary protocol over modern instant messaging protocols like Jabber to create interactive applications.

Allow users to see other people they can chat with, and find printers, shared files, and shared music collections as soon as they connect to a network. The Avahi API provides service discovery on a local network via the mDNS/DNS-SD protocol suite. It's compatible with similar technology found in MacOS X and Windows.

Handle users' local and online address books and calendars with Evolution Data Server (EDS). It provides a way of storing account information and interacting with...

Mit Folks erhalten Sie Zugriff auf eine API für den Umgang mit sozialen Netzwerken, Sofortnachrichten, E-Mail und Audio- und Videokommunikation.

# Real-world examples

You can see lots of real-world applications of the GNOME communications technologies in open source projects, like the examples given below.

Empathy is an instant messaging app with support for a wide range of messaging services. It uses Telepathy to handle connections, presence, and contact information for all of the protocols that it supports.

(Website | Screenshot | Empathy source code )

With Telepathy Tubes support, the GNOME Games collection was able to add multi-player gaming support through the Jabber protocol.

(Website | Screenshot | GLChess online multiplayer code )

Avahi support allows users of the Rhythmbox music player to see shared music collections on their local network, using DAAP.

(Website | Screenshots | DAAP Code )