<p>The IM integration in the <a class="reference" href="http://gnome3.org">GNOME3</a> is interesting, but only for
the people using Empathy :) Because my personal preference goes
to another client called <a class="reference" href="http://gajim.org">Gajim</a> I wanted it to fit more in the
Shell. To reach this goal I worked on 2 small projects partly
during my <a class="reference" href="http://igalia.com">Igalia</a> hackfest hours and partly during my free time.</p>
<p>The first bit is a <a class="reference" href="http://trac-plugins.gajim.org/wiki/GnomeSessionManager">Gajim plugin</a> integrating with the GNOME
Session-Manager and synchronizing your status in GNOME with your
Gajim status.</p>
<p>The second part is a <a class="reference" href="http://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-shell-extensions/tree/extensions/gajim">Shell extension</a> hooking to Gajim via
D-Bus to monitor chat notifications and allow chatting in the
Shell without directly using the Gajim window. This behaves
exactly as the Empathy integration.</p>
<p>There's still some work to do, like inhibiting notifications
coming from Gajim because currently when a incoming chat appears
the user gets a notification from the builtin Shell IM and a
notification from Gajim itself. A workaround is to disable some
notifications in the Gajim preferences.</p>
<p>As I needed some <a class="reference" href="http://trac.gajim.org/ticket/6787">new D-Bus API in Gajim</a> the Shell extension
requires Gajim-nightly >= 20110326.</p>
<p>Congrats to the GNOME Team for this awesome GNOME3 release and
happy chating :)</p>
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Comments on article "Gajim in your GNOME3 Shell"2011-04-13T16:31:28.000002+02:00phil on Gajim in your GNOME3 Shell
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phil
<p>I'm glad this code is useful :)</p>
2011-04-13T12:58:05.000002+02:00kagesenshi on Gajim in your GNOME3 Shell
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kagesenshi
<p>Hi Phil,</p>
<p>Thanks for the gajim extension. Based on it I managed to create an integration extension for pidgin. :D</p>
<p>For those who are interested: <a class="reference" href="http://blog.kagesenshi.org/2011/04/pidgin-and-gnome3.html">http://blog.kagesenshi.org/2011/04/pidgin-and-gnome3.html</a></p>
2011-04-08T21:31:20.000004+02:00mcepl on Gajim in your GNOME3 Shell
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mcepl
<p>Thanks a lot! Using the session plugin already and I have to force Owen to fix gnome-shell extensions in Fedora to get a second. Thank you!</p>
2011-04-08T10:45:34.000004+02:00phil on Gajim in your GNOME3 Shell
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phil
<p>The extension code itself is not very complicated...</p>
<p>You need to have some way to get incoming notifications from your client and be able to display/send messages. To do this for Gajim I used their D-Bus API.</p>
<p>Once you have that ^^ the Shell integration is straightforward.</p>
2011-04-08T10:28:03.000004+02:00b on Gajim in your GNOME3 Shell
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b
<p>Would be great to have a piece of code to be able to plug in any xmpp client such as swift, psi, pidgin, mcabber and gajim.</p>