Comments on: News about Empathy

By: Laurent

Laurent — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Bien bien bien… j’attends les paquets Ubunutu et je me mets à Gutsy.
À propos, il y a un code éthique sur internet qui dit qu’il faut brouiller le nom des contacts dans on mets des captures d’écran de messageries.

By: beza1e1

beza1e1 — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

It looks and acts like Gossip, so what’s the difference? Gossip can use Telepathy and Galago, too.

By: Xavier Claessens

Xavier Claessens — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

beza1e1> The difference is in the internal design of the application.
1. It only supports telepathy, no more complex code to support mutli-protocol, telepathy does that for us.
2. It uses MC for account managing which allows other application to get existing accouts, check if they are connected and get information through telepathy API.
3. It is splitted into 2 libraries (libempathy and libempathy-gtk), like that other GNOME applications can embed empathy’s widgets.

All that is only possible using telepathy and MC and needs big refactor of gossip, which was refused by gossip’s main developers, so I forked the UI.

By: nobse

nobse — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

What about meta-contacts? That’s something I really miss in gossip.

By: Xavier Claessens

Xavier Claessens — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

nobse> It’s part of the integration with Evolution’s adresse book.

By: mike

mike — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

for me it’s still grapevine

By: nicola

nicola — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Compiling in feisty i get this error:
undefined reference to mission_control_get_presence_message_actual’
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

Do you have an idea?

By: Xavier Claessens

Xavier Claessens — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

You need mission control >= 2.22

By: chibiace

chibiace — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

do you have any planned ui changes? glade is fun.