Comments on: ANNOUNCE: Empathy 0.21.91

By: Stoffe

Stoffe — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 10:29:53 +0000

Ok, thanks for the reply.

By: xclaesse

xclaesse — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 00:08:21 +0000

File transfer works in the fileTransfer branch from this empathy repository:
http://git.collabora.co.uk/?p=user/bari/empathy.git;a=summary

However, the telepathy spec isn’t approved yet and is implemented only in salut (xmpp link local). For MSN, butterfly doesn’t support file transfer but has almost everything ready for that so it shouldn’t be too hard to implement.

So we’ll have file transfer “soon” but I don’t know when…

By: Stoffe

Stoffe — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 20:45:10 +0000

What’s the status on file transfers, especially MSN file transfers? Need it for work sadly, even though I know that sounds completely crazy. It’s actually the only thing semi-hard to accomplish well with a free desktop in the middle of Windows-land, at least in my setting.

Amsn is the only program supporting real transfers and it’s a clunky piece of shit, UI-wise, that should be beaten repeatedly with a HIG, any HIG, even Microsofts. It also hogs a lot of resources.

Pidgin doesn’t provide real transfers, and seeing the debate that has gone on for many years in that department, I’ve long since stopped holding my breath – besides, Empathy is the project that *seems* best for the future way forwardm, especially in a GNOME environment.

By: xclaesse

xclaesse — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 07:51:42 +0000

voice/video is disabled by default, you need to compile with –enable-voip=yes.

By: blech

blech — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 05:27:05 +0000

It works with my msn account,
but where is the voice/video ?

By: xclaesse

xclaesse — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 12:08:45 +0000

@Spike: I made the difference because in old versions it was a bit different to configure a normal jabber account and a gtalk one. I had to preset server to talk.google.com, etc. Now that’s not needed anymore but empathy keeps both “protocols” in the UI for compatibility and because some users could not know that gtalk==jabber.

@Nic: farsight and stream-engine are not yet released, I don’t know which version it will be. Look at telepathy’s ML for announces.

By: Nic

Nic — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 09:37:25 +0000

Thanks Xavier, can’t wait to try the new voip with gtalk. I’ll be waiting for the new releases of farsight and stream engine though. Could you please give out the version number of these two packages that is needed for that? Thanks again for your great work.

By: Spike411

Spike411 — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 06:00:40 +0000

I think that presenting GTalk as another protocol creates more confusion than necessary…