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dbus bridge: fixed introspection for dynamically added methods and signals
author Goffi <goffi@goffi.org>
date Fri, 04 Feb 2011 00:13:41 +0100
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1 SàT v0.1.1
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2 (c) Jérôme Poisson aka Goffi 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011
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4 SàT is a XMPP (Jabber) client.
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10 ** LICENSE **
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12 SàT is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
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13 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
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14 the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
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15 (at your option) any later version.
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17 SàT is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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18 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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19 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
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20 GNU General Public License for more details.
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22 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
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23 along with SàT. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
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27 It is currently in a very alpha stage, and absolutely not usable for everyday use, use at your own risks !
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33 ** WTF ? **
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34 SàT is a XMPP (Jabber) client, made on a daemon/frontend architecture. Its aim is not only to be an instant messagery client: XMPP offer a lot more, and differents tools will come in the future.
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36 For the moment, the frontends are:
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38 * wix: a wxwidget frontend, the main graphical frontend
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39 * primitivus: a console interface client, for screen lovers
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40 * jp: the command line toolkit. The tool for geeks by geeks
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42 other frontends planed in the near future:
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44 * a web frontend
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45 * a KDE 4 frontend, as KDE is my main desktop environment
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53 For installation instructions, please read the file "INSTALL".
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55 A wiki is available online (http://wiki.goffi.org), in french and english so far (I would appreciate any help for other languages). You can also have a look at the bottom of this files (in contact section) for other availables websites.
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57 SàT is really at an early dev stage, so it's maybe the buggiest software you have ever seen, and there are for the moment absolutely nothing to ease the installation and use (but it will be the case ASAP, one of the goal of the project is the ease of use).
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64 ** Misc **
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66 -- Shortcuts for Primitivus (temporary):
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71 ##GENERAL##
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72 [tab] and/or arrows: change focus
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79 ##CHAT WINDOW##
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89 ##EDITION ZONE##
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99 SàT is the acronym (yes another one :( ) in tribute to the song Salut à Toi from the Bérurier Noir band. I recommand also the excelent cover from Les Ogres de Barback.
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100 jp stands for "Jabber coPy" or "JumP". If you look well, you can also find my initials ;)
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101 Primitivus is based on Urwid, and, according to their FAQ, "ur" is a german prefix for "ancestral or primal" (primitivus is latin word)
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105 ** /!\ Privacy warning /!\ **
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107 To make setup easier, SàT ask my website (http://www.goffi.org) the external ip address of client. So a request is made to this page: http://www.goffi.org/sat_tools/get_ip.php .
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108 The IP are not collected. Future releases will probably come with a warning about this and an easy way to avoid it.
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111 ** Credit **
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113 A big big thank to the authors/contributors of...
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116 SàT (plugin_xep_0065) use nearly all the code from proxy65 (http://code.google.com/p/proxy65/) wich was coded by Dave Smith (2002-2004) and maintained by Fabio Forno (2007-2008).
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117 As the original MIT license allow, the code is reused and sublicensed until GPL v3 to follow the rest of the code.
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120 SàT (jp) use ProgressBar (http://pypi.python.org/pypi/progressbar/2.2), a class coded by Nilton Volpato which allow the textual representation of progression.
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123 SàT is based on the twisted framework (http://twistedmatrix.com/trac/), a very great tools which offer a lot of protocols management. There are too many contributors to name them here, so take a look on the website :).
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126 SàT use a library with high level enhancements on top of twisted, which is called wokkel (http://wokkel.ik.nu). Lot of thanks to Ralph Meijer and all other contributors.
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129 The Wix frontend is made with wxWidgets (www.wxwidgets.org) and its python version wxPython (wxPython), which is a really handy UI toolkit who works on most popular platforms. It can be found on probably all major Gnu/Linux distributions.
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132 Primitivus is based on Urwid (http://excess.org/urwid/) which saved me a lot of time. It's really a great library to easily make a sophisticated interface.
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134 pictures found in frontends/wix/images/crystal/:
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135 These pictures come from Crystal clear, were made by Everaldo Coelho (www.everaldo.com) and YellowIcon (www.yellowicon.com). They are under LGPL V3 licence (see frontends/wix/images/COPYING.LESSER).
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136 Found on http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Crystal_Clear_app_browser.png and http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Crystal_Clear_app_cache.png
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139 The Tarot cards pictures come from the deck found on wikicommons (the script used to cut them is available at frontend/wix/images/split_card.sh), and available at http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8d/Tarotcards.jpg under Creative Commons BY-SA. The authors shown on the site are Piast and Svick. The splitted cards are, according to the license, available under the same conditions.
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141 the powerfull ImageMagick (http://www.imagemagick.org/) is used by the script written to split the previously named picture.
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144 and of course, nothing would be possible without Python (http://www.python.org/), Gnu and the Free Software Foundation (http://www.gnu.org, http://www.fsf.org/), the Linux Kernel (http://www.kernel.org/), and the coder of the tools I use like Vim (http://www.vim.org/), Mercurial (http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/wiki/), or all the KDE stuff (http://www.kde.org/ and of course http://amarok.kde.org/), and also XFCE (http://www.xfce.org), etc. Thanks thanks thanks, thank to everybody in the Free (Libre) chain for making a part of the dream.
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146 If I forgot any credit (and I probably have), please contact me (mail below) to fix it.
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152 ** Contact **
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154 You can contact me on goffi@goffi.org . Yes I know, I don't give my JID ;)
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155 You'll find the latest version and other stuffs on my *.goffi.org websites:
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156 - wiki (wiki.goffi.org), in french & english so far
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157 - ftp (ftp.goffi.org) for the latest version, or previous ones (and other projects)
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158 - blog (www.goffi.org) for latest news (in french)
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159 - bugtracker (bugs.goffi.org) to report any problem or give suggestions
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164 This software is dedicated to Roger Poisson.
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