[Gossip-dev] Nokia released Mission Control

[Xavier Claessens]

As announced on telepathy ML [1], nokia released their MC. This means
gossip will need a big rework if we want to take advantage of it.
Basically the MC is a layer on top of telepathy that manage accounts.
This allow to make a very small separate UI program for each aspect of
an full IM client. For example we can have one program to manage contact
list, one for private chat, etc.

I'm posting here to get opinions of what will gossip become. I think it
will need lots of work and re-factorisation in order to get it good.

In a first step I think we should keep gossip in one piece, or at least
one tarball. I didn't read the whole libmissioncontrol API but I guess
it will mainly need rework in GossipAccount, GossipAccountManager and
related UI.

The big question here is: Do we keep GossipJabber backend ? I think it
won't be possible to keep a no-telepathy backend if we want a good MC
(and desktop) integration, or at least it will need more work and I'm
not sure there is still developers that have time to take care of this
(old) backend.

Xavier Claessens.

[1]
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/telepathy/2007-March/000471.html