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Telepathy is a software framework which can be used to make software for interpersonal communications such as instant messaging, Voice over IP or videoconferencing. Telepathy enables the creation of communications applications using components via the D-Bus inter-process communication mechanism. Through this it aims to simplify development of communications applications and promote code reuse within the free software and open source communities by defining a logical boundary between the applications and underlying network protocols.

Implementations

There are free software implementations of various protocols that export Telepathy interfaces:

Gabble: for XMPP, including support for Jingle
Butterfly: for Windows Live Messenger
Idle: for Internet Relay Chat
Salut: for the link-local XMPP protocol
Haze: for accessing protocols supported by libpurple, the library used by the Pidgin messaging client. This was done as a Google Summer of Code project in 2007.^[1]
Spirit: for the Skype protocol on the Nokia N900 and Nokia N9
Rakia: for the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), using Nokia's open source Sofia-SIP library
Morse: for Telegram

Mission Control is the name of the component that provides a way for end-user applications to abstract some details of low level telepathy components such as connection managers.^[2]

Tubes are Telepathy's mechanism for supporting arbitrary data transfer and remote IPC.^[3]

Telepathy forms the basis of the instant messaging and voice/video calling software on the Nokia 770, N800, N810, N900, N9 and Jolla.

How Telepathy works

Protocol implementations provide a D-Bus service called a connection manager. Telepathy clients use these to create connections to services. Once a connection is established, further communication happens using objects called channels which are requested from the connection. A channel might be used to send and receive text messages, or represent the contact list, or to establish a VoIP call.

Applications

References

^ "Telepathy". Trac (wiki). Pidgin. Retrieved 2008-06-30.
^ Mission control, Source forge, archived from the original on 2008-01-13.
^ "Tubes", Telepathy, Free desktop.

External links

Project website
"IM/VOIP Communications Framework" video download (77MB ogg) of talk by lead developer Robert McQueen on Telepathy. Streaming Flash video.
KDE-Telepathy actual 0.9.0
Telepathy Developer's Manual

[1] "Telepathy". Trac (wiki). Pidgin. Retrieved 2008-06-30.

[2] Mission control, Source forge, archived from the original on 2008-01-13.

[3] "Tubes", Telepathy, Free desktop.

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 There are [[free software]] implementations of various protocols that export Telepathy interfaces:
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 * '''Morse''': for [[Telegram (software) |Telegram]]
-Mission Control is the name of the component that provides a way for end-user applications to abstract some details of low level telepathy components such as connection managers.<ref>{{Citation | url = http://mission-control.sourceforge.net/ | title = Mission control | publisher = Source forge}}.</ref>
+Mission Control is the name of the component that provides a way for end-user applications to abstract some details of low level telepathy components such as connection managers.<ref>{{Citation | url = http://mission-control.sourceforge.net/ | title = Mission control | publisher = Source forge | url-status = dead | archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20080113095325/http://mission-control.sourceforge.net/ | archivedate = 2008-01-13 }}.</ref>
-Tubes are Telepathy's mechanism for supporting arbitrary data transfer and remote [[Inter-process communication |IPC]].<ref>{{Citation | contribution = Tubes | contribution-url = http://telepathy.freedesktop.org/wiki/Tubes | publisher = Free desktop | title = Telepathy}}.</ref>
+Tubes are Telepathy's mechanism for supporting arbitrary data transfer and remote [[Inter-process communication |IPC]].<ref>{{Citation | contribution = Tubes | contribution-url = https://telepathy.freedesktop.org/wiki/Documentation/Tubes | publisher = Free desktop | title = Telepathy}}.</ref>
 Telepathy forms the basis of the instant messaging and voice/video calling software  on the [[Nokia]] [[Nokia 770 |770]], [[Nokia N800|N800]], [[Nokia N810|N810]], [[Nokia N900|N900]], [[Nokia N9|N9]] and [[Jolla]].
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 * [[Empathy (software)|Empathy]]
 * [[KDE Telepathy]]
-* [[Sugar (desktop environment)|Sugar]]
+* [[Sugar (software)|Sugar]]
-* [[Tapioca (framework)|Tapioca]]
 ==See also==
-{{portal|Free Software}}
+{{Portal|Free Software}}
 * [[Farstream]] (formerly Farsight)
 ==References==
-{{reflist|2}}
+{{Reflist|2}}
 ==External links==
 * [http://telepathy.freedesktop.org Project website]
 * [http://mirror.linux.org.au/pub/linux.conf.au/2007/video/talks/301.ogg "IM/VOIP Communications Framework"] video download (77MB ogg) of talk by lead developer Robert McQueen on Telepathy. [http://lca2007.linux.org.au/talk/301 Streaming Flash video].
-* [http://community.kde.org/Real-Time_Communication_and_Collaboration KDE-Telepathy]
+* [http://community.kde.org/Real-Time_Communication_and_Collaboration KDE-Telepathy] actual 0.9.0
 * [http://telepathy.freedesktop.org/doc/book/index-info.html Telepathy Developer's Manual]
 {{Freedesktop.org}}
-[[Category:Freedesktop.org]]
-[[Category:Free network-related software]]
-[[Category:Free instant messaging clients]]
 [[Category:Applications using D-Bus]]
+[[Category:Free instant messaging clients]]
+[[Category:Free network-related software]]
+[[Category:Freedesktop.org]]