whatever happened to Telepathy?

[graylion]

it was supposed to make it into feisty and got deferred. I still tjhink it is a great idea. Does anybody know anything?

[mat1t]

telepathy is doing well in the form of various desktop apps. Empathy is the one I'm using at the moment, and if I remember right can be installed direct from the repositories.

Other names that spring to mind but I don't know the status of are Tapioca and Cohoba

[aamukahvi]

telepathy is doing well in the form of various desktop apps. Empathy is the one I'm using at the moment, and if I remember right can be installed direct from the repositories.

Other names that spring to mind but I don't know the status of are Tapioca and Cohoba
If only they'd put decent icons/smileys in Empathy... Right now it's the gossip(IIRC?) set which is pretty bad. Maybe copy the Pidgin theme even, I'd like that.

[F for Fragging]

On the desktop-devel mailing list of the GNOME project, Empaythy was proposed for inclusion in GNOME 2.22 (http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2007-September/msg00301.html). Since Empathy uses Telepathy as was already pointed out, possibly we'd see Empathy in Hardy Heron because Hardy Heron will come with GNOME 2.22. So it looks like Telepathy will be included in the next release. It's a great thing if GNOME finally gets a good integrated IM application. Not that Pidgin isn't good enough, but it would be better if it would be more integrated with GNOME. I'm certainly looking forward to it.

[el_itur]

There is so much sterile discutions in the gnome's mail list. I can't believe so much people are against the inclusion of telepathy in gnome 2.22.

I haven't been able to make it work on my box though mat1t, Can you post how you did it?

The most I could get from empathy is msn text chat, no multiple accounts.

[mat1t]

I installed empathy, and the majority of the telepathy-* libraries (butterfly for msn, salut for bonjour chat, gabble for jabber etc)

They all then appeared in the available options in empathy and it all worked from there. I'm afraid I can't give you more help than that at the moment as I don't currently have a working gutsy box

[Triscuit713]

What capabilities does Empathy offer? Mailing lists say it can perform voice chat using jingle- is this true? Can it talk to gtalk?

[syxbit]

pidgin is great, but they're not even trying to get audio for jabber.
all my friends want to googleTalk audio chat with me, and my superior OS (as I tell them) can't do it :(

[RAOF]

What capabilities does Empathy offer? Mailing lists say it can perform voice chat using jingle- is this true? Can it talk to gtalk?

I've never got Empathy to do anything but spin the CPU with voice chat. However, I haven't really tried very hard at all - I don't even know if the guys on the other end were voice chat enabled.

As I understand it, the Telepathy framework is pretty much capable of VoIP & video chat, but the Empathy support for this is not mature.

The Ubuntu Telepathy team (https://launchpad.net/~telepathy) has a PPA (https://launchpad.net/~telepathy/+archive) that contains various testing packages. If you're interested in testing newer Telepathy stuff, you might want to look at it.

[ntetreau]

The ubuntu telepathy team is still two versions older than the latest empathy released. Let's hope they pick up the slack soon. Now that I think of it though, they may just start packaging the empathy with gnome 2.21.2 or so as Empathy as been accepted for inclusion according to the author.

[bruce89]

Just to clear up, Telepathy can use libpurple, which is Pidgin's IM library, so anything Pidgin can do, Telepathy based programs can do.