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I would like to have a way to abstract communication. A way to abstract different protocols and focus on communications rather than protocols. (Cause we have to much of them)
This could look like this:
We develop an new software. We define a kind of user-profile which defines under which protocol a person may be reached. We know that different protocols suit different needs.

So I open this application and say I want to communicate with that given person. So depending on whether I want to send a file, or I need to chat, or I need a video conference or message like mail the client decides which protocol will be used.
This Application will handle Contact data like the KDE PIM suite currently does. (Maybe with some improvement). Contact data files can be sent to others with different protocols. You can block contacts. You could maybe use this application as a social platform to keep in track with other peoples. (Only that you have much more privacy control).

It would be something from scratch. It should be possible, that this communication abstraction can be implemented on other OS's and DesktopManagers.
Maybe even as a web application.

An important point also is: Not all people will use this! So that the abstraction can only be on one side of the communication. Old protocol should still work with no hindrance.

Protocol should be handled on an abstract way, so that more protocols can easily be added.
Interesting protocols:
IM, mail, twitter, google wave!

(Google Wave, though it's dying, is amazing and has a lot of potential. It would be so nice to include this! And to get Wave alive again!)
(btw. gmail is also a good starting point, maybe copy some of this ideas!)

Make your thoughts, improve the idea and let's break the barriers between different protocols!

It's coming:
http://telepathy.freedesktop.org/wiki/

KDE Telepathy is still a long way off, but libraries are being put together, and bits are starting to take shape. All information on a given person is all stored in a central resource.

I can already a file to any contact with a few clicks in dolphin. Follow drdanz and grundleborg on planetKDE, and maybe I should start blogging my work too.

With regards to your idea: It's too vague - "implement something that does everything really well". Isn't very helpful. Be precise, and be realistic.

State exactly what ideas in Gmail are good to implement. Describe a workflow in which you would send a contact detail to a friend. Draw some mockups.

If you have something _specific_ you'd like to see and put some work into thinking through a proposed design how the user would use it - I'd really like to see it.

http://community.kde.org/Real-Time_Comm ... ration/FAQ

i'm looking forward in testing the first release..

btw. sending files form dolphin to a contact sounds great.