Cannot add third-party Accounts
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Empathy |
Incomplete
|
High
|
|||
empathy (Ubuntu) |
Triaged
|
Low
|
Unassigned | ||
gnome-control-center-signon (Ubuntu) |
New
|
Undecided
|
Unassigned |
Bug Description
Adding a third party account, such as ones from telepathy-haze, is something I find vital.
In 12.04, if I wanted to add an account in Empathy, I could choose any of the accounts supported - whether it was an telepathy plugin, a libpurple plugin through telepathy-haze, or otherwise. Adding a new account type was as simple as installing the libpurple libraries.
In 12.10, empathy switched to using the "Online Accounts" program (as far as I know, that's in the gnome-control-
Please provide an option to allow third party accounts, or at least a simple method of integrating them into Online Accounts.
While I'm all for integration and unification, I am against it being used to limit functionality.
I require plugins like SIPe for work and my own custom telepathy libraries to function. The loss of this functionality is a serious regression and should be treated as such.
Thank you.
Detailed info:
1) Ubuntu 12.10
2)
a. gnome-control-
b. empathy version: 3.6.0.3-0ubuntu1
3) I expected to be able to use third-party libpurple libraries through telepathy-haze and other telepathy libraries created by myself. SIPe is a necessary function for my work.
4) I am limited to the options provided within the "Online Accounts" program within Ubuntu. SIPe can no longer be used as it used to in 12.04.
Changed in empathy: | |
importance: | Unknown → High |
status: | Unknown → New |
Changed in empathy (Ubuntu): | |
status: | New → Triaged |
importance: | Undecided → Low |
Changed in empathy: | |
status: | New → Incomplete |
note that you can still run empathy-account to add those accounts...