OIM not supported but present in python-msn

[Nicolò Chieffo]

Binary package hint: telepathy-butterfly

Offline messages are supported in python-msn but there's no wrapper in telepathy-glib.
The same for chatting with invisible users.
This will be a regression when the switch pidgin->empathy will happen.

Upstream does not seem much interested in msn bugs, so I hope canonical developers will work on it.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Jun 1 20:07:09 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Package: telepathy-butterfly 0.3.3-2
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=it_IT.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.30-6.7-generic
SourcePackage: telepathy-butterfly
Uname: Linux 2.6.30-6-generic x86_64

[Nicolò Chieffo (yelo3)]

Reading the pymsn feature list here http://telepathy.freedesktop.org/wiki/Pymsn it seems that offline messages are already supported.

Shhould we close this bug? or does telepathy-butterfly have to add support for them too?

[Will Thompson (wjt)]

Well, do they work in Butterfly? If so, the bug is fixed; if not, it is not!

[Nicolò Chieffo (yelo3)]

Simply, how can I test it?
I only know empathy as a way to test telepathy, but empaty does not let to open chat windows with offline (or apparently offline) users

[Will Thompson (wjt)]

Sure it does! Show offline contacts, and then double click one.

If that doesn't work, then butterfly is broken.

[Nicolò Chieffo (yelo3)]

Double click does nothing. (empathy 2.26)
in empathy 2.27.1 everyone is always shown as offline, so I don't know if it is an empathy bug.

the telepathy-butterfly version is 0.3.3 which is dated 6 Jan 2009
the pymsn version is 0.3.3 which is dated 05-Aug-2008

I can't find the telepathy-butterfly webpage, because I would like to see what it is currently supported.

[Nicolò Chieffo (yelo3)]

Binary package hint: telepathy-butterfly

Offline messages are supported in python-msn but there's no wrapper in telepathy-glib.
The same for chatting with invisible users.
This will be a regression when the switch pidgin->empathy will happen.

Upstream does not seem much interested in msn bugs, so I hope canonical developers will work on it.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Jun 1 20:07:09 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Package: telepathy-butterfly 0.3.3-2
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=it_IT.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.30-6.7-generic
SourcePackage: telepathy-butterfly
Uname: Linux 2.6.30-6-generic x86_64

[Nicolò Chieffo (yelo3)]

Don't you think we should raise the priority in order to achieve feature parity with pidgin?

[Olivier Le Thanh Duong (olethanh)]

This is effectively a problem with Butterfly not supporting OIM and so refusing to open a channel with disconnected users.

[Nicolò Chieffo (yelo3)]

I don't think it's LOW because in this way you loose messages, since
offline messages are not delivered to you, you can miss something
important.

[Olivier Le Thanh Duong (olethanh)]

This branch implement OIM support, both for sending and receiving message
http://git.collabora.co.uk/?p=user/olethanh/telepathy-butterfly.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/offline

[Olivier Le Thanh Duong (olethanh)]

*** Bug 23574 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Jonny-lamb (jonny-lamb)]

What's the status of this branch? I had a little look at it and it looked okay. It'd be cool if Louis-Francis could take a look though.

It'd be nice to get this merged.

[Olivier Le Thanh Duong (olethanh)]

Merged into master :)

[Olivier Le Thanh Duong (olethanh)]

Fixed in 0.5.2 which is packaged in karmic