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| Developed by | KDE / supported by NLNet and basysKom |
| Latest release | . A software developer is a person or organization concerned with facets of the software development process wider than design and coding a somewhat broader scope of KDE ( K Desktop Environment) (ˌkeɪdiːˈiː is a Free software project which aims to be a powerful system for an easy-to-use Desktop environment. A software release is the distribution whether public or private of an initial or new and upgraded version of a Computer software product 5 / July 31, 2007 |
| OS | unix-like |
| Genre | Communications framework |
| License | GNU Lesser General Public License 2.1 |
| Website | http://decibel.kde.org/ |
Decibel is a new communication framework for KDE4, the next major release of the K Desktop Environment. Events 30 BC - Battle of Alexandria: Mark Antony achieves a minor victory over Octavian 's forces but most of his army subsequently Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. An operating system (commonly abbreviated OS and O/S) is the software component of a Computer system that is responsible for the management and coordination A Unix-like (sometimes shortened to *nix) Operating system is one that behaves in a manner similar to a Unix system while not necessarily conforming Computer software can be organized into categories based on common function type or field of use A software license (or software licence in commonwealth usage is a Legal instrument governing the usage or redistribution of copyright protected software The GNU Lesser General Public License (formerly the GNU Library General Public License) or LGPL is a Free software license published by the Free Software A website (alternatively web site or Web site, a back-construction from the Proper noun World Wide Web) is a collection of Web pages KDE 4 is the current series of releases of the K Desktop Environment. KDE ( K Desktop Environment) (ˌkeɪdiːˈiː is a Free software project which aims to be a powerful system for an easy-to-use Desktop environment. Decibel aims to integrate all communication protocols into the desktop. In computing, a protocol is a convention or standard that controls or enables the connection Communication, and Data transfer between two computing As of now they have all their contacts in different applications: AOL, MSN, E-mail, Skype, etc. Windows Live Messenger (formerly MSN Messenger Electronic mail, often abbreviated to e-mail, email, or originally eMail, is a Store-and-forward method of writing sending receiving Skype (skaɪp is Software that allows users to make telephone calls over the Internet. Decibel wants to put all contacts in one place and make it easier for the user to manage and communicate with his/her contacts.
For example Alice wants to talk to Bob. The names Alice and Bob are commonly used placeholders for archetypal characters in fields such as Cryptography and Physics. The names Alice and Bob are commonly used placeholders for archetypal characters in fields such as Cryptography and Physics. Alice requests to start a connection to Bob and a service manager takes in the requests and choose the best way to communicate to Bob (depending on telephone number, e-mail address, etc), and opens up a connection to Bob. This way Alice can contact her friends no matter what protocol they are best contacted with.
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Features
Decibel functions as a desktop agnostic daemon that uses the Telepathy protocol for communication protocols. Telepathy is a Software framework which can be used to make software for interpersonal communications such as Instant messaging, Voice over IP or But Decibel adds features on top of Telepathy to reduce effort and complexity needed in integrating real time communication into applications. Like Telepathy, Decibel uses D-Bus to offer services through, meaning any D-Bus aware application can take advantage of Decibels services. D-Bus is a Free software project which offers a simple way for applications to communicate with one another Decibel is able to manage desktop specific actions, protocol configuration and account management. Desktop specific actions would including launching GUIs written in the desktop native toolkit, like Qt or GTK+, or using the desktop's Personal Information Manager to store passwords and other account information. Qt (pronounced "cute" by its creators is a Cross-platform application development framework widely used for the development of GUI programs (in which GTK+, or The GIMP Toolkit, is a Cross-platform Widget toolkit for creating Graphical user interfaces It is one of the most popular toolkits
Use in KDE 4
Decibel wasn't ready for 4. 0 release. It's planned to be used fully in Kopete by KDE 4. Kopete is a multi-protocol Free software Instant messaging client. 2. Both Kopete and Pidgin will be making their current protocols available through the telepathy specification while official telepathy components mature. Pidgin (formerly named Gaim) is a multi-platform Instant messaging client.