[Gossip-dev] Integrating with Gossip

[Jerry Haltom]

Also:

I wouldn't expect my program to be able to use DBus to send a message to
any arbitrary IP. I'd expect it to be abstract and allow me to
specifically send XMPP messages to JIDs exposed by currently logged in
accounts.

On Thu, 2006-03-23 at 11:58 -0600, Jerry Haltom wrote:
> Ever heard of Imeem? Their software is basically an IM client which
> allows for users on the IM network to share files with each other. It
> provides a nice interface for browsing pictures, browsing music files,
> movies, etc.
> 
> The idea is pretty nice. To integrate these different functions into a
> users contact system. It makes sense from an interface perspective. You
> see your friends, you want to see what files your friends are letting
> you see. Same channel of communication.
> 
> My problem with Imeem of course is that all their services are provided
> by them only for use with their users. And it's all built into the IM
> client.
> 
> I'd like to make it easy for me to duplicate some of their
> functionality. To do this I need to be able to write an application,
> such as a picture browser, which exchanges messages with a remote
> picture server. It makes sense then to have a single communication
> framework by which I can do so.
> 
> I could put the picture browser into Gossip prime, but I don't want to,
> and I suspect you don't want me to either. ;)
> 
> I'd rather have some way which a separate picture app can run on both
> machines, but use the user's Jabber as a communication transport: either
> to exchange the actual data over XMPP, or to use XMPP to establish an
> out of bound connection in another manner.
> 
> Each app could establish it's own connection to Jabber. Maybe this is
> ideal, it could log on as a separate resource. But then at least the
> Jabber libraries need to be sharable... and probably account
> information, and stored passwords.
> 
> Or there could be one daemon running in the user's session functioning
> as a Jabber backbone upon which other services can piggyback their own
> data.
> 
> That's the basic idea. Comments? :)
> 
> On Thu, 2006-03-23 at 11:57 +0000, Martyn Russell wrote:
> > On Tue, 2006-03-21 at 18:46 -0600, Jerry Haltom wrote:
> > > It has occurred to me that I want to write a program that uses Jabber.
> > > Not a big deal! However, the nature of this program makes me want to
> > > integrate into the user's existing IM client. The details of the program
> > > aren't exactly important (I want to allow a user to browse another
> > > user's files.)
> > 
> > For what purpose?
> > 
> > > What I really want though is access to the Jabber transport from an
> > > external program. I want my program to be able to launch, and perhaps
> > > thru D-BUS, send custom XMPP messages to other JIDs.
> > 
> > Mmm, this doesn't sound like a good idea to me. Using Dbus to send any
> > message over a socket to some server sounds like a security nightmare.
> > 
> > Unless you could be more specific? :)
> > 
> 
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