Decibel
[Open communication desktop interface -- concluded on 2007/09/01]Decibel (formerly known as "OpenCDI") provides a generic infrastructure, which integrates existing communication protocols --like any plugin based solution would do-- without the need for an application which presents everything in one user interface. It creates components and services, each optimized for a special task (or role). When a component realizes user interaction, the service will provide the technology. A service-based architecture will interconnect components to fulfill a given task.
Decibel will integrate the efforts of Tapioca, KCall, and OpenTAPI. The MOTUIM projects has comparible motives, but has not yet taken of.
- The project's own website
- 2007/03/17: Decibel helt a hackathon (report in PDF) in Darmstadt, Germany.
- 2007/03/08: Decibel considered one of the "Pillars of KDE4". Article at dot.kde.org.
- 2006/07/06: Decibel short concept, depicted in incoming and outgoing use-cases (all PDF documents)