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by Conan_Kudo 2378 days ago
T-Mobile USA's system is bog-standard IMS with RCS extensions. There are a few open source client stacks that support this, notably Doubango's. The trick is writing a frontend that uses regular Linux GUI libraries. As far as I know, nobody has done that yet...
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tmzt 2378 days ago
It could probably be implemented aa a plugin for Telepathy, which already has mobile-focused UI for multiple platforms.
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pabs3 2378 days ago
Telepathy seems to be dying on desktop GNU/Linux, the existing clients in GNOME/etc are being replaced by protocol-specific applications. New protocol plugins seem to happen more in Pidgin/libpurple these days.
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pabs3 2378 days ago
Any idea if Doubango has IMS/RCS libraries that could be used for implementing a Linux frontend?
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kop316 2378 days ago
This seems to be their GitHub:

https://github.com/DoubangoTelecom/doubango

It looks like it could be. They have client-side proof of concepts.

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