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About that office suit.
by ben on Saturday 17/Feb/2007, @00:58

An office suite could use Decibel to embed chat or even video conferencing with the author of a document or support channels.

How exactly will the office suit know who to call? extra metadata?

and will there be a Koffice window with an ICQ chat in it, or will Koffice just call Kopete?

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Re: About that office suit.
by superstoned on Saturday 17/Feb/2007, @04:45

It should support decibel, and just tell it to open a chatwindow. It can be embedded, yes...

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Re: About that office suit.
by Tobias Hunger on Saturday 17/Feb/2007, @06:13

<technical blahblah>
The idea is to ask the Decibel daemon for a channel an ID of a contact stored e.g. in Akonadi. Decibel will then either return that channel to the calling application to do with it as it pleases (useful for those developers who want to write their own chat software) or it can invoke a channel handler for it. The channel handler is a Decibel-aware application (e.g. based on kopete) configured by the user for a combination of protocol, type of data transmission and contact.
</technical blahblah>

So a office suite could e.g. look up the author of a document in its metadata, check for the name found there in Akonadi and then ask Decibel to connect to it, using whatever the user had configured as a GUI to handle the actual communication. One D-Bus call is all that takes:-)

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Re: About that office suit.
by ben on Saturday 17/Feb/2007, @06:33

well that awnsers everything.

Thank you.

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