On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 7:53 PM, Girish Venkatachalam < [email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 7:03 PM, Prasanna Venkadesh > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Dear folks, > > > > > > Linux users can do the following on their Google account from terminal > > itself: > > > > 1. Login and set Status Message. > > 2. Check number of Unread Mails. > > 3. Chat with the contacts in your Gmail Account. > > 4. Get voice notifications. > > > > > > > > Inspiration: > > > > Most of the linux users spends time either in Web-Browser or in Terminal, > > and we were thinking how nice it would be if we are able to chat from > > terminal itself instead of opening a Web-browser. This saves your > processor > > from consuming more power (since no GUI), Faster than Web-browser, and > > especially for those who use internet via mobile phone would love it > > because using internet from mobile and opening Gmail account takes nearly > > 10 min and our app log in into your chat box in just 10 seconds (Max.). > > This was our inspiration to develop this and future versions will be > still > > more better. > > > > > > And we love any sort of feedback from you. > > Super. Congrats. > Thanks for your wishes. > > First thought: > > Why don't you put this up on sf.net? > Yes, i had a thought of putting it and will surely put it in sourceforge, since i started to learn VCS using Git so i initially did all my commits there and got a account in Github and now its time to do it in Sourceforge soon after my semester exams are over :-) > > Are you using Google's APIs? > No, we are not using Google's APIs but Rubygems that access the Google via XMPP Protocol. > > UNIX even today does not have a neat conferencing tool on the console. > > We have xchat but that is a boring GUI. > yeah, i have tried it, not so experienced with it. > Can you elaborate if you are using nCurses? > No, initially i got advice to used nCurses but since Ruby already has a gem for colouring called Colorize i just used it. But am not sure using which is efficient and please help us to improve better. > > Also I believe using Google API is neat because these days everyone > has a Gmail account. > Thanks for your suggestion and just now looked on the Google API for ruby and found it. Will implement it soon and update it. > > However this should also work with UNIX usernames. > I have to accept here i am not aware of UNIX usernames. You mean internal chat within the same network? > > That is my idea. Sorry for hijacking the thread. > > Best of luck and may God bless you with success. Thanks a lot. And am really loving the feedback and the support from you all :-) Linux is popular for its community support and i am proud to belong to this community. -- Regards, Prasanna Venkadesh ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- PuduvaiLUG (puduvai Linux Users Group): http://puduvailug.wordpress.com/ FOSS Jobs all over India: http://fossjobs.in _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
