Telepathy

http://www.aosabook.org/en/telepathy.html

1 communications as a service

2 D-Bus messaging

a. an asynchronous message bus for interprocess communication that forms the backbone of most GNU/Linux systems inkling the GNOME and KDE desktop environments. 

b. transmit a targeted message or broadcast a signal through the bus

c. every application have a bus address and can claim a number of well-known names

d. D-bus daemon handles message passing and name registration

e. D-bus protocol libraries are lib dubs, GDBus, QtBus, and python-dbus.

3 Components

a. Connection manager : provides the interfere between Telepathy and the communication services ( XMPP, SIP, IRC etc)

b. Account manager: store accounts and establish a connection to each account 

c. The Channel Dispatcher: listening for incoming channels signalled by each connection manager; provide outgoing service 

d. Client : handle or observe communications channels.

e. Account manager and channel dispatcher are provided in a single process called Mission Control

f. components are talking with each other through use's session bus.

4 D-bus in telepathy

Each service publishes objects which a strictly namespaced object path.

Each object implements a number of interfaces.

Each interface provides methods, signals and properties that you call, listen to, or request

Mission control --- connection manager and channel dispatcher

Client --- a client object that can be accessed by channel dispatcher

connection manager -- a service object that can be used by the Account Manager to request new connections, an object per open connection, and an object per open channel.

ofd means org.freedesktop.Dbus

Connection object : ofdT.Connection.Interface,Avatars, ContactList, Location

Channel : ofdT.Channel.Type.Text, Call, FileTransfer, Messages, Group

Concept:

Handles : represent identifiers ( e.g. contacts and room names)

Connection -- Channel( an IM conversion, voice or video  call)  --- Clients

Clients have three types : observers, approvers, handlers

high-level bindings are Glib and Qt4 bindings

low-level bindings are Python and lib telepathy C bindings

D-Bus integrates well with Glib main loop used by the GTK+ and Qt toolkits.