maemo.org - Talk - View Single Post - [WIP] Porting Whatsapp to Meego/Maemo (N9, N900)

hobarrera	2012-02-18 , 19:36
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Originally Posted by ColaCheater

The alternative would be to write an Pidgin plugin that then could be used in telepathy/N900 via a plugin for telepathy(?!)

Yes, some protocols are already implemented this way in the N900.
I belive the avahi/bonjour plugin in particular, is a pidgin plugin, being loaded this way.

Originally Posted by rash.m2k

Say we did create a plugin for something (one of those frameworks mentioned). Would we still be able to send files, have >1 party IM sessions, be able to send broadcast messages? (I have zero knowledge of this)

Multi-person IM sessions are supported on XMPP, but I can't remember if I've ever had one on the N900.
File sending is missing from the N900 chat UI.

I don't know what you mean by broadcast, but if it means "sending to everyone", there's probably some specific account that you send the message to (ie: everyone@s.whatsapp.com), and it gets re-sent to everyone by the WA server.
I'm just guessing though, this will probably be verifiable by sniffing :P