So, I have been working some weeks on this, and today I reached the first “usable” point. Screenshot:
As you may know, Facebook has a chat service. For me at least is slowly becoming the place where I have more people talking to me, and as you may also guess, the value of social systems is very tied to the number of users.
Sadly, Facebook guys where not smart enough as the Google guys and brought yet another damn protocol to this protocol overpopulated world. Then came the worst part. They announced something that was not there and promised Jabber support. One year later nothing has yet happened.
For a such popular service, one starts to think whether waiting another year is worth for a protocol that is so popular. As I wanted it myself now, at some point I decided I was willing to implement it even if a Jabber version was available later.
We already have the problem that users expect to see Google talk in the Kopete list, because developers don’t figure out that grandma does not know what Jabber/XMPP is. So a good improvement would be adding the concept of “services” where we could add a protocol by just saying “it is just jabber, but with this server settings, this logo and this name”. That path would allow for a easy move to other XMPP protocols later.
But for Facebook, no more wait. Yesterday I was able to use it for first time to chat, so I am blogging about it.
Next steps:
- Add more error handling
- Fix a bug in the contacts status when they go offline
- Put it into kopete or playground svn
- Make an openSUSE package
- Cleanup. I started over the testbed plugin and it added some stuff that probably I don’t need
- Proxy support. I coded the engine using QNetworkAccessManager so it is KDE independent. Only the Kopete plugin is KDE based, so I haven’t looked into proxy support and other stuff
Other stuff with less priority:
- Adding contacts from the client
- Configuration (there is no much to configure)
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Nice work!
As you are using QNetworkAccessManger, you will be able to use my KDE implementation KIO::AccessManager. This way you should get everything KIO supports (proxy?).
Great ! Will be useful ! Thanks.
Awesome! Is there any way to try this out yet? Or do we need to wait for it to be in playground?
Great! This was really missing in kopete
i hope it goes quickly into kopete and not only playground. Things tend to get lost there sometimes..
Friking awesome!
you’re my hero
Bueno !
Thanks a lot for working on this Hope it will get in kopete soon
This has been waited for long! This is the reason I’m using Pidgin instead of Kopete (in KDE4.3b1). Let us know how to try it out!
Really great work man!
This is awesome. When do you expect it to be in Kopete?
Nice, fantastic work!
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¡¡Bien!! Voy a ser la envidia de mis amigos guindozeros, Bah ya lo soy . . .
Idea: if the protocols are implemented as classes, couldn’t you simply use C++’s support for subclassing?
e.g: subclass JabberProtocol as GoogleProtocol.
p.s. I am a C++ developer, but have never looked at Kopete’s code.
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COngratulations Duncan!!! But I’ve got a question. Can the facebook plugin work on KDE 3.5.x, or Kopete 0.12.7 ??
Great new feature … was wondering if it will ever be there.
Very good news, especially since now both KDE and GNOME in openSUSE 11.2 will have Facebook chat support (it’s being added to Pigdin as well)
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You are very gentile for make this plugin
Thanks a lot
Greetings from Chile
Seems like recently the plugin stopped working
Hello, any progress on this plug-in? It should be very usefull for many people, but it is very buggy and not working now.
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