Piorun Client

Links

 * Piorun homepage
 * Novell DeveloperNet page
 * Original proposal
 * Blog
 * Final report

Description
Piorun (=lightning in Polish) is going to be a client for semi-advanced users, somewhat resembling XChat or TKabber, written using C#/Mono/Gnome# and integrated with Gnome desktop. Main goal is to provide comfortable interface for dealing with many mult-user chats and large rosters, with good keyboard navigation. I also want to keep the code clean and extensible.

Implementation details

 * Piorun uses own Jabber library based on TcpClient, using packet-level synchronization with GLib's main loop. Control flow can be safely interrupted in any place to update GUI, which makes application more responsive


 * XMPP stanzas are wrapped into c# classes


 * Contacts (described by Jabber ID's) are first-class objects, they alone send and receive stanzas and do many other things

Summer of Code tasks
done are marked by [x], partially done by [?]


 * [x] TLS/SASL (the most labour-consuming task)
 * [x] privacy lists
 * [x] multi-user chat (basic)
 * [ ] service discovery
 * [x] vCard
 * [x] avatars (within vcard)
 * [ ] IM-HTML
 * [ ] file transfer
 * [x] aspell support
 * [ ] history browsing
 * [x] all internal graphics in SVG format
 * [ ] integration with Evolution address book
 * [ ]  history search through Beagle
 * [ ] "now playing" feature with Muine
 * [x] log window
 * [x] logging to file
 * [x] xml console
 * [ ] better keyboard navigation

About me
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My name is Dominik Zablotny. I come from Poland, where I am living in small town Brodnica and studying Computer Science at Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun. My programming experience includes: Borland's Pascal/Delphi/C++, GNU C and Free Pascal, but my favourite tool is C#/Mono.

Contact information:


 * Jabber Id: doza@chrome.pl
 * Mail: doza <!> sztorm.net