Xavier Claessens

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.

The announce is here. I opened a branch for VoIP support, it more or less work but don’t expect too much atm.

I proposed Empathy for inclusion in GNOME Desktop 2.22, you can follow the discussion here.

… with python binding (!!) and a Salut (link-local) account configured by default using information from gnome-about-me. All you need is install Empathy+telepathy-salut, enable the salut account and you can chat with people on your local network. File transfer is not yet merged, we are waiting for the telepathy spec to be reviewed and approuved before implementing it in CMs and Empathy.

Thanks to all contributors!

We still have 67 open bugs… help is appreciated !

See release notes for more details.

As you can see on the release notes this release comes with tones of bug fixed. Thanks to allof you who contributed at fixing bugs opened by Vincent Untz and other testers. Please keep helping us making the future GNOME IM client and framework.

If you are going to use libempathy(-gtk) API for you applets or other collaborative work, please keep in mind that the API is not stable yet and may change at anytime. However you can start experimenting with it.

File transfer support is on his way.

We now have telepathy-haze which is a ConnectionManager based on top of pidgin’s libpurple. That means that Empathy can connect MSN/Jabber/Yahoo/etc, all protocols supported by libpurple.

And finally MissionControl’s DBus API is being standardised, based on Nokia’s MC and Decibel. The goal is to be able to run a GNOME IM program like Empathy in a KDE environment using accounts defined by kopette, for example.

If you want to contribute there is 60 open bugs in Empathy!