This document introduces the Telepathy framework, an open source project that allows for communication across multiple protocols like XMPP and IRC. It is used in desktop applications like Empathy and mobile Linux devices from Nokia. The framework consists of libraries for C, Qt, and Python that provide common APIs for instant messaging. It supports popular protocols through components like Gabble for XMPP and Butterfly for Windows Live Messenger.

1. Telepathy Framework Intro
Maksim Melnikau (max posedon)
Linux Mobile hobbyist
World of Tanks developer
December 29, 2012

2. Conceptual example

3. Desktop applications
Empathy
kde-telepathy

4. Mobile devices
N770 / N800 / N810
N900
N9 ( N950 )

5. Most popular protocols
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.
Rakia: for the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), using Nokia’s
open source Sofia-SIP library

6. telepathy libraries
telepathy-glib
telepathy-qt
telepathy-python

7. Questions and Answers
email: maxposedon@gmail.com