Telepathy Mission Control 5 is an account manager and channel dispatcher for the Telepathy framework, allowing user interfaces and other clients to share connections to real-time communication services without conflicting. It implements the AccountManager and ChannelDispatcher D-Bus APIs as described by telepathy-spec.
The account manager part stores real time communication account details, connects to the stored accounts on request, and sets the accounts' presence, nickname and avatar according to requests from Telepathy user interfaces and other components.
The channel dispatcher part responds to incoming communication channels (message streams, voice/video calls, file transfers etc.) by dispatching them to suitable user interfaces, and requests outgoing communication channels according to requests from a Telepathy UI.
Telepathy is a D-Bus framework for unifying real time communication, including instant messaging, voice calls and video calls. It abstracts differences between protocols to provide a unified interface for applications.
Building Mission Control requires: GLib, GObject http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/glib/ libdbus http://dbus.freedesktop.org/releases/dbus/ The D-Bus GLib bindings http://dbus.freedesktop.org/releases/dbus-glib/ telepathy-glib http://telepathy.freedesktop.org/releases/telepathy-glib/
GNU make http://www.gnu.org/software/make/ pkg-config http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/pkg-config/ libxslt, xsltproc http://xmlsoft.org/XSLT/ Python http://www.python.org/
and can also make use of: gtkdoc http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gtk-doc/
See configure.ac for full details, including versions required. Of the packages listed above, only GLib, GObject, libdbus, dbus-glib and telepathy-glib are required at runtime.
Building from git also requires the GNU build system (Autoconf, Automake, libtool).
Report all bugs, feature requests and "to-do" items here: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=Telepathy&component=mission-control
Interfaces described as stable in the Telepathy Specification http://telepathy.freedesktop.org/spec/ are considered stable and will not generally have incompatible changes.
All other interfaces (including draft interfaces and Nokia-specific extensions) are subject to change.
The mission-control-plugins library introduced in Mission Control 5.5.0 contains a C API for plugins. All plugins should be compiled and linked against this library by using the CFLAGS and LIBS from mission-control-plugins.pc, and installed in the directory given by this pkg-config query:
pkg-config --variable=plugindir mission-control-pluginsIncompatible changes in this library's public API/ABI will be avoided whenever possible. The API and ABI versions can be retrieved with these pkg-config queries:
pkg-config --variable=MCP_API_VERSION mission-control-plugins
pkg-config --variable=MCP_ABI_VERSION mission-control-pluginsThe older libmcclient and libmissioncontrol-server have no API or ABI guarantees, and should not generally be used at all. Since version 5.5.0, their headers are not installed by default.
Mission Control follows the same Linux-style odd/even minor versioning policy as most other Telepathy components: for instance, the 5.1.x series were development releases leading to the 5.2.x stable branch.
Intermediate versions built from the git repository have a "+" suffix on the version number, so version "5.1.0+" could be any snapshot taken between 5.1.0 and 5.1.1.
Mission Control was originally written by Nokia Corporation for the Maemo platform, but it is now maintained by the Telepathy project: http://telepathy.freedesktop.org/ mailto:telepathy@lists.freedesktop.org irc://irc.freenode.net/telepathy
The current development version of MC is available from the 'master' branch in the git repository: git://git.collabora.co.uk/git/telepathy-mission-control.git <git+ssh://git.collabora.co.uk/git/telepathy-mission-control.git> http://git.collabora.co.uk/?p=telepathy-mission-control.git (gitweb)
Stable branches will be made available from branches with names like 'telepathy-mission-control-5.2' in the same repository.
Contributions for review should be attached to bugs in freedesktop.org Bugzilla, with the "patch" tag. If there's no relevant bug, open one: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=Telepathy&component=telepathy-mission-control
MC does not yet follow http://telepathy.freedesktop.org/wiki/Style. Please follow the style used in the current code.