On Fri, Mar 6, 2015 at 12:02 AM, kaushik <roideunive...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Joshua, > > Welcome to Kopete. > > Understanding the existing plugin code and redesigning it will be the best > way to go for it. However understanding the existing code will not be that > easy. You will need some familiarity with these Kopete::Contact and > Kopete::MetaContact. > > The logic inside HistoryLogger.cpp is not that difficult to understand. If > you see huge methods, that is probably because it also contains the logic > of parsing the history log ( which is read as QDomDocument ) and appending > the incoming messages to it. Moving the logic to its own class or a > different method will shrink the code and make it more readable. You can > use a History object instead of the QDomDocument, or anything else you > might want. > > Once you are a little familiar with the existing plugin code and If you > need any help in understanding the logic, just ping us and we should be > able to help. > > Thanks, > Kaushik > IRC - roide > Thanks Kaushik. I have gone through the source code. The history1 plugin seems very well structured. Looking at the bug list, the one of the requested features is the ability to import chats from more IM applications. I think the core of this project will be based on restructuring/rewriting the History plugin, and also expand it to be able to import history from more external sources. > > -- Thanks, Joshua
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