Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Sat 17th Feb 2007 03:12 UTC
Decibel is a service that is concerned with real time communications; therefore, everything that connects one user with another user and makes it possible to get replies instantaneously is in the scope of Decibel. Decibel is based on the Telepathy D-Bus API's and uses the Tapioca implementation of these API's.
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RE[3]: They just seem to get it
by anda_skoa on Sat 17th Feb 2007 15:24
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So, GNOME is likely to use Telepathy directly
While it might be possible that they are going to implement the whole Telepathy specification themselves, I think it is more plausible that they will also use an existing implementation, maybe even Tapioca (the one used by Decibel)
RE[3]: They just seem to get it
by napf on Sat 17th Feb 2007 20:55
in reply to "RE[2]: They just seem to get it"
Member since:2007-02-17
That is not correct.
The language bindings for telepathy that is recommended to KDE developers are actually those provided by Tapioca.
The telepathy website mentions a Mission Control component. It is not really clear what that is supposed to do and there is only a incomplete draft of it yet, but that is close to some of the things Decibel does.
Decibel is not a language binding, it is a service layer on top of telepathy.
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For the record, Decibel is built on top of the Telepathy framework, a freedesktop.org framework written largely by GNOME developers. So, GNOME is likely to use Telepathy directly or with a GLib wrapper, whereas KDE will use Telepathy by wrapping it in a KDE friendly API through Decibel.
Both desktops are featuring integration. The main difference right now is that KDE is advertising it much more right now.