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      type="topic"

      id="tech-telepathy">

  <info>

    <link type="guide" xref="tech" group="telepathy"/>

    <revision pkgversion="3.0" date="2011-04-05" status="incomplete"/>

    <credit type="author copyright">

      <name>Shaun McCance</name>

      <email its:translate="no">shaunm@gnome.org</email>

      <years>2011–2012</years>

    </credit>

    <credit type="copyright editor">

      <name>Federico Mena Quintero</name>

      <email its:translate="no">federico@gnome.org</email>

      <years>2013</years>

    </credit>

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    <desc>Unified instant-messaging and communications service</desc>

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<title>Telepathy</title>

  
Telepathy provides a powerful framework for interacting with the user's

  instant messaging contacts. With Telepathy, all accounts and connections are

  handled by a <link xref="tech-d-bus">D-Bus</link> session service that's

  deeply integrated into the GNOME desktop. Applications can tie into this

  service to communicate with contacts.

With the Telepathy Tubes API, you can even tunnel an arbitrary

protocol over modern instant messaging protocols like Jabber to

create interactive applications. You can create multi-player games or

collaborative editors that integrate with the desktop-wide

instant messaging services.

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  <item>
<link href="http://telepathy.freedesktop.org/doc/book/">Telepathy Developer's Manual</link>
</item>

  <item>
<link href="http://telepathy.freedesktop.org">The Telepathy web site</link>
</item>

</list>

</page>