A Connection object in Telepathy
represents an active (or activatable) protocol session. Connections are
created by the appropriate
Connection Manager.
A connection can be located on the D-Bus session bus via the well-known name
org.freedesktop.Telepathy.Connection.cm.proto.account,
where cm is the name of the Connection Manager that
created the connection (e.g. gabble, salut) and proto
is the name of a Telepathy Protocol (e.g. jabber, msn, irc).
The connection object can then be retrieved from the path
/org/freedesktop/Telepathy/Connection/cm/proto/account.
Depending on what features are supported by the protocol, a given
connection will implement more interfaces than just
Connection. The interfaces supported by
a given connection can be retreived using the
GetInterfaces method once the connection is in
the CONNECTED state. The supported list of interfaces
doesn't change during the life on a connection, so it is expected that a
client will retreive this once the connection is
CONNECTED.
Interfaces that a connection might support are:
