Re: Hangouts, XMPP and KDE on-line accounts

Vojtěch Zeisek <[email protected]> Thu, 22 Nov 2018 14:53:53 +0100

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Dne čtvrtek 22. listopadu 2018 14:30:06 CET, Luca Beltrame napsal(a):
> In data giovedì 22 novembre 2018 14:14:51 CET, Vojt?ch Zeisek ha scritto:
> 
> > I wonder which options do we have for instant messaging (KDE, TW). I'd
> 
> Currently as in officially in the distro only kopete: there used to be KDE
> Telepathy (KTP) as well, but it was removed due to build breakage followed
> by inactivity from upstream. There's some discussion on whether bring it
> back or not at http://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1116043.

Interesting discussion. It'd be said if KDE wouldn't have any integrated IM 
set...

> > On-line accounts in KDE control center allow me to add Google account and
> > it can access Drive and YouTube. Nothing more. Using gdrive:/ in Dolphin
> > lists
> Do you have kio-gdrive installed?

Yes, I do.

> > settings, removing contacts, etc). Is it worth of reporting?
> 
> You might want to report it upstream, although development activity is
> really low.

OK, if I get usable backtrace, I'll.

> > So do we have among our packages anything reliably working with Google
> > Hangouts? I don't prefer to use it through web browser as I use KMail (so
> > no
> There's no support to Hangouts in either KTP or kopete, in general, IIRC.
> It's a proprietary walled garden, so this doesn't surprise me.

Yes, I agree, but franz mentioned by Knurpht or YakYak make it working...
I'm not happy about need of using it, but I'm involved in two organizations, 
where Google Apps (or what's the name of that set now) is heavily used...

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