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The Pillars of KDE 4: Decibel Definitions and Benefits (KDE.News)

Posted Feb 20, 2007 8:45 UTC (Tue) by hunger (subscriber, #36242)
In reply to: The Pillars of KDE 4: Decibel Definitions and Benefits (KDE.News) by aseigo
Parent article: The Pillars of KDE 4: Decibel Definitions and Benefits (KDE.News)

Hey Aaron,

you are cutting Decibel short;-)

Decibel is *NOT* an implementation of the Telepathy
specification, Decibel just uses it! Decibel is a service layer on top of
Tapioca that is doing things like account management, contact management,
etc. that are well outside the Telepathy specification yet necessary for
basically all communication applications.

What you are doing is a bit like claiming the GStreamer framework is yet
another sound driver:-)

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The Pillars of KDE 4: Decibel Definitions and Benefits (KDE.News)

Posted Feb 21, 2007 2:07 UTC (Wed) by aseigo (guest, #18394) [Link]

true enough; it is a lot more than just a layer riding on top of
telepathy. that it is using the standardized bits and pieces where they
exist is a good thing, all the same =)