Category: GNOME

Yet another empathy release! As empathy is not yet part of GNOME desktop I’m not following freezes, so this version has news features ;D

The VoIP support in empathy is now far better, but you’ll need not-yet-released versions of farsight and stream-engine which fixes lots of issues, we should get new releases of those modules rsn.

Empathy has now decent UI for configure Jabber/GTalk/Yahoo/ICQ/IRC/MSN protocols, I refactorised the code to generate those specialised UI and it’s now just a matter of a glade file with 15lines of C… So if you’re using another protocol (thanks to telepathy-haze empathy supprots all piding protocols)  and want to give a try using empathy, I would be happy to get patches!

For those of you wanting to contribute using git, please read the “commit message” topic on my git howto.

See announce for more details, as usual help is welcome! I set up a page explaining how to contribute using GIT because gnome’s svn is really… hm… I stop here to not start a flame.

Monday was not a good day to release telepathy packages: Empathy 0.21.5 and 0.21.5.1 got released with FTBFS, MissionControl 4.53 and 4.54 got released but was unable to start, pymsn 0.3.0 and telepathy-butterfly 0.3.0 got released and bugs were discovered directly…

So we now have Empathy 0.21.5.2, telepathy-mission-control 4.55, pymsn 0.3.1 and telepathy-butterfly 0.3.1 ready and hopefully not too much buggy.

I proposed Empathy for inclusion into GNOME desktop 2.22 but it got rejected for various good reasons, mainly because it’s still a young and instable project and needs more polish. So if you like empathy and want a good IM client for GNOME 2.24 your help is needed to improve it.

pymsn and telepathy-butterfly 0.3.x are  a complete rewrite to support MSNP15, Empathy is the first free client supporting MSN protocol version 15 thanks to Ali Sabil and all pymsn/butterfly contributors. Work will continue to support more features like file transfer, audio/video, custom smileys, nudges, etc. If you like python language and want a better MSN support for telepathy clients you can help pymsn and telepathy-butterfly projects.

See the announce.

Please don’t report bugs on your blog, we have bugzilla.gnome.org for that. Comments are disabled and I see no email address so I have to post on my blog to reply…

To reply to the problem: I don’t think it’s an Empathy bug, empathy gives UTF-8 messages to the Connection-Manager, if the protocol don’t want to send UTF-8 messages it’s up to the CM to change the format. So which CM and protocol were you using?

Thanks

Edit: Ah, I just seen the bug is now in bugzilla too. Bug #503200. Sorry for the noise.

Empathy 0.21.3 released in time for GNOME 2.21.3 tarball due.

For those who want to contribute to Empathy and, like me, prefer using git, we have a git repository at git.collabora.co.uk. I keep it sync with GNOME’s SVN using git-svn, it works pretty well.

In time for GNOME 2.21.2, here is Empathy 0.21.2. See announce and, as usual, feel free to test, report bugs and propose patches

Dear tango team,

Empathy needs you! I don’t have icons in all sizes, if someone could provide SVGs and PNGs in all sizes I would be really happy! See bug #469902.

Thanks !!!

GNOME 2.21.1 Tarballs Due is tomorrow. I released Empathy 0.21.1, and will follow GNOME’s schedule from now on. Empathy is not yet accepted in GNOME desktop but it’s proposed for inclusion.

I’m also working on MissionControl‘s DBus API standardisation. I opened a darcs branch of telepathy-spec, with and html version. We are reviewing and improving it with nokia’s devs, see discussion on telepathy’s ML.

As always, bug reports and patches are welcome, Empathy has 84 open bugs waiting for your help

The announce is here. VoIP branch get merged in HEAD and now is part of the 0.14 release! However it’s not really stable yet and is disabled by default. You can enable it at build-time with the –enable-voip=yes configure option. VoIP stuff are hidden if not build with voip enabled, that’s an important bug fixed from previous release.

This release also fixes all but one crasher bugs. Here is the last reported crash, I don’t understand the backtrace, if someone can tell me what’s happening I’ll give him a beer.