[Adium-devl] [Gaim-devel] Gaim integration with gnome-games

[Colin Barrett]

On May 30, 2006, at 6:49 AM, Andreas Røsdal wrote:

> Luke Schierer wrote:
>> On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 09:40:23AM -0500, Richard Laager wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, 2006-05-30 at 10:21 +0200, Andreas Røsdal wrote:
>>>
>>>> I'm wondering if there would be any interest in implementing  
>>>> support for launching network games from Gaim? Gnome-games has  
>>>> network games (gnibbles and iagno, and more planned), and it  
>>>> would be very convenient for users to be able to launch network  
>>>> games directly from Gaim. On Windows, this is already supported  
>>>> using MSN Messenger launching minesweeper network games.  Could  
>>>> the current plugin system for Gaim support something like this?
>>>>
>>> Almost surely. If not, we can add hooks as necessary.
>>>
>>> Richard
>>>
>>>
>>
>> I am not opposed to this, but I'd rather it be a plugin than in gaim
>> proper.
>>
> Do you have any pointers about implementing such a plugin? So far  
> I've found: http://gaim.sourceforge.net/api/c-howto.html
>
> To start a network game using Gaim, it would have to:
> -Find the IP address of another user which also has Gaim.
> -When the users wants to play a network game, launch the correct  
> game (eg. gnibbles),
> and give information to gnibbles about either starting a new  
> network game, or connect to an existing game.
>
> I don't think there is a need for a gnome-games specific plugin,  
> all that is needed is a general plugin for Gaim which
> can negotiate which game to start, and pass the appropriate  
> parameters to the executable to the game knows which
> IP address to connect to.

There was an effort done by some Adium contributors and developers to  
create a similar protocol. I'm ccing the Adium Dev list this message  
in the hopes that  they can provide you with some help and possibly  
interop(?)