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telepathy-haze package

Gadu Gadu situation

Bug #733862 reported by Marek Paśnikowski
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telepathy-haze (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: telepathy-haze

I'll be honest with you. Current implementation of Gadu Gadu protocol in telepathy-haze is worthless. Why don't you substitute it with working solution? https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/telepathy-sunshine

This lack of working implementation of Gadu Gadu in default Ubuntu is show stopper for people in Poland. How can I suggest the new OS for them, when such fundamental thing - their favorite IM protocol - is not working? Yea, I know it can transport messages, but without contacts support it doesn't matter.

Just kick the GG out of telepathy-haze and pull telepathy-sunshine into dependencies of empathy. I hope this can be done in Natty cycle. Really, in Poland lack of proper GG support destroys value of Ubuntu for new users. Just do it, and the situation will change greatly!

Cyprian Guerra (cyprian-guerra)
Changed in telepathy-haze (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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Cyprian Guerra (cyprian-guerra) wrote :

telepathy-haze does support:
 * contact statuses / avatars
 * message delivery / reception
 * notification about your contact writing to you
That's basically all that's needed to use the protocol for text communication.

However it doesn't support:
 * buddy list saving
 * buddy list export (to file / server)
 * buddy list importing (from file / server)
 * file transfer
Probably more.

I don't agree with the tone of this bug report, however, implementation of Gadu Gadu in telepathy-haze does not allow for convenient usage mostly due to necessity of adding all your friends ID numbers every time you close/open IM.

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Cyprian Guerra (cyprian-guerra) wrote :

There's no working telepathy-sunshine for Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric.

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Marek Paśnikowski (marekpasnikowski) wrote :

Since I reported the bug I switched to Debian + KDE. Still, the one problem of contacts disintegration is a killer bug. The new Linux user won't care why does it happen or how to fix. He will just return to Windows. Even no support for GG in telepathy-haze would be better than the current implementation. Yet it is so easy to fix, it makes me wonder, why there is half-year delay for the first response to appear. If it doesn't work for 11.10, it can be made to work, right? I do not know how the library works, but I think it is pretty easy for the maintainer to fix. I would contact him, but I do not have the authority here.

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hegemon8 (pantokrata2) wrote :

I don't know, why there is so much hassle over this IM. Its quite fresh, and need some polish, like kopete's skype support, Gadu Gadu contacts export/import, etc. New users wont have such a problems finding "kadu" - an gadu-gadu open Linux client, decent, reminds Gadu itself. Simple as hell. Not saying having fully working multi protocol IM with KDE would be great, but patience...

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