It was a really popular Empathy feature request, it even has a bounty on it, and today I just did it! The patches are available in bugzilla, apply on telepathy-gabble and empathy master.
Here is a screencast of OTR in action between Empathy and Pidgin:
I hacked it on my free time, let’s see if crowd funded projects really works. If you like that feature feel free to make a donation on the bounty: https://freedomsponsors.org/core/issue/333/telepathy-should-support-otr-encryption.
Awesome!!!
Typo:Piding
This pretty awesome, I hope it will be in a release soon!
Typo fixed, thanks.
Awesome! Thanks a lot for implementing this really important feature!
looking forward to its release and I hope you blog when it does so I can send off my promised payment to you. 🙂
Oh wow, thanks alot!!!
This is outstanding! Excellent work!
Great, can’t wait to have it in the fedora repository.
Thanks a lot 🙂
nice!
too bad it’s still not merged into upstream. 🙁
I just tried it with your ppa but get “OTR is not supported on this account” when entering “/otr start” in a Jabber chat.