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@@ -1,16 +1,33 @@ -[[!table header="no" format="dsv" class="mointable" data=""" - Telepathy is a flexible, modular communications framework that enables real-time communication via pluggable protocol backends. Telepathy is a **communications service** that can be accessed by many applications ("clients") simultaneously. - -This allows any application to access presence information, request a communications channel (potentially handled by another client), or collaborate contact-to-contact. | [[!img Telepathy.png]] - | Telepathy provides protocol backends for most popular protocols including: Jabber/XMPP/Jingle, link-local XMPP, SIP, Yahoo/AIM and IRC via a unified [[D-Bus|http://dbus.freedesktop.org]] API. - -It also provides convenience libraries for GLib, Qt4 and Python to simplify using the API from applications. - Telepathy exposes the available real-time communications capabilities of each protocol: presence, contact rosters, text chat, voice and video over IP, file transfer and [[Telepathy Tubes|Documentation/Tubes]]. | - [[!img TelepathyArchitectureOverview.png]] | Telepathy is modular. Each backend and client runs in a separate process, allowing for much greater security and resilience. - Telepathy is suitable for embedded and desktop environments. - - [[!inline pages="FrontPage/UsingTelepathy" quick="yes" raw="yes"]] | [[!inline pages="FrontPage/DevelopingWithTelepathy" quick="yes" raw="yes"]] - [[!inline pages="FrontPage/ContributingToTelepathy" quick="yes" raw="yes"]] | [[!inline pages="FrontPage/ArticlesAndPresentations" quick="yes" raw="yes"]] -"""]] + +[[!img Telepathy.png]] + +Telepathy is a flexible, modular communications framework that enables real-time communication via pluggable protocol backends. Telepathy is a **communications service** that can be accessed by many applications ("clients") simultaneously. + +This allows any application to access presence information, request a communications channel (potentially handled by another client), or collaborate contact-to-contact. + +Telepathy provides protocol backends for most popular protocols including: Jabber/XMPP/Jingle, link-local XMPP, SIP, Yahoo/AIM and IRC via a unified [[D-Bus|http://dbus.freedesktop.org]] API. It also provides convenience libraries for GLib and Qt to simplify using the API from applications. + +Telepathy exposes the available real-time communications capabilities of each protocol: presence, contact rosters, text chat, voice and video over IP, file transfer and [[Telepathy Tubes|Documentation/Tubes]]. + + [[!img TelepathyArchitectureOverview.png]] + +Telepathy is **[[modular|Rationale]]**. Each backend and client runs in a separate process, allowing for much greater security and resilience. It is suitable both for embedded and desktop environments. + +# Using Telepathy + +## End users + +Telepathy is a *framework*, therefore it is mainly targetted to developers that want to enable real-time communication and collaboration features in their applications. + +As an end user, you can make use of one of the *Clients* of Telepathy, which are listed in the Clients section of the [[Components|Components]] page. + +## Developers + +See [[Developing With Telepathy]]. + +# Developing Telepathy + +See [[Contributing]]. + This wiki is undergoing [[conversion]]. If you have a fd.o shell account, you can help! |