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# Telepathy for Delta Chat
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## What
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[Delta Chat](https://delta.chat) is IM over email. [Telepathy](https://telepathy.freedesktop.org)
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is a framework for abstracting over multiple IM protocols. This project glues
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the two together, making the Deltachat
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## Why
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Mobile IM, mostly. Desktop IM, also. It's ideal for my pinephone, and lighter
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than the electron desktop client.
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## How
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This project is written in Rust, just like the main Delta library, so you'll
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need a rust compiler to build it.
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It makes use of the `dbus-codegen-rust` crate to convert the
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[telepathy interface specs](https://github.com/TelepathyIM/telepathy-spec) into
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the executable code in `src/telepathy`. This is checked in, but can be
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regenerated like so:
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```bash
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$ git submodule init telepathy-spec
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$ git submodule update telepathy-spec
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$ cargo install dbus-codegen-rust
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$ ./scripts/dbus-codegen
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```
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`dbus-codegen-rust` doesn't seem to handle namespaced attributes properly, so
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we modify the XML files in `telepathy-spec`... with `sed`. The `tp:type`
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attribute is renamed to `tp:typehint`.
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