Decibel是个实时通讯的软件框架。开发人员可以很方便的将他们自己的应用程序和功能添加上去并集成到各自的工作中。
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Decibel: 统一通讯接口
概览
Decibel is implemented in a desktop wide server process, offering services via DBus. This daemon process is desktop agnostic and uses desktop dependent components (e.g. GUIs) to integrate into the users preferred desktop environment. Components are configured to be started in response to communication events. This saves resources and allows for users work with those components that work best for them.
Decibel uses telepathy compatible protocol implementations to connect to realtime communication servers. By using this open source standard, Decibel supports a wide range of communication protocols.
Decibel软件技术栈
Decibel软件技术栈
提供服务
Decibel后台服务提供下列服务：
These services dramatically reduce the complexity and effort required to integrate realtime communication into applications, enableing even "normal" desktop applications to offer realtime communication based services to their users. We hope that this ease of use will make application developers think about new uses of these communication methods, enableing users to interact with each other within the application they are currently working in.
桌面集成
Decibel后台会存取用户的通讯帐号因而他必须可以访问PIM数据库。这些集成项都是桌面应用相关的，而且是编译时指定的配置项。These integration points are desktop specific and currently implemented as compile time configuration options. All other integration into the desktop environment is done by components which are selected and started by the Decibel daemon as required using DBus activation.
The Decibel sources contain an example implementation of these integration points, using an INI-style text file for data storage. Integration into the KDE and Gnome desktop and other targets like embedded plattforms, Microsoft Windows or Mac OS X are possible.
组件配置
Components are used to decouple the Decibel daemon from the desktop environment used. They are started to handle a single communication channel between users. Which component is started depends on the configuration of the Decibel daemon: Based on communication type (text chat, audio/video stream, etc.), protocol used or even contact trying to communicate users may configure their preferred component to handle any incoming or outgoing communication request.
This concept offers a great flexibility: User can eg. forward audio streams to a answerphone, send a note in reply to any communication request from one special contact and have all other text-based communication attempts pop up a chat window.
These component preferences are stored in profiles. Decibel makes it easy to switch between these profiles, allowing external applications to do that. This makes it possible to have eg. a cronjob switch between settings for "office hours" and "out of office hours".
联系人
邮件列表: decibel@kde.org
IRC: #decibel on freenode.net
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