Empathy unable to search for sametime contacts

[Tessa Lau]

I expect to be able use the "search for contacts" feature to find a contact by name without knowing their email/handle. However in the Chat->Search for Contacts dialog, the option for the sametime protocol (which is what I use primarily) is grayed out.

This used to work in Gaim/Pidgin.

How can I get contact search working in Empathy?

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Bilal Shahid (s9iper1)]

Thank you for taking time in filing the bug to make ubuntu better.
1).is this bug reproduce able?
2).ifso than define the steps to reproduce it?

[Tessa Lau (tlau)]

Yes, it's reproducible.

1) Enable a Sametime protocol account
2) Click on Chat -> Search for Contacts
3) Try to select the sametime protocol for searching, but it is disabled

[Guillaume-desmottes (guillaume-desmottes)]

http://telepathy.freedesktop.org/spec/Channel_Type_Contact_Search.html

Sametimes should at least support it: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=666156

[Simon McVittie (smcv)]

This probably requires libpurple work: many actions in prpls are not really suitable for use in Haze, since their API is essentially "here is a list of menu items" and "please display a window that looks like this".

I seem to remember contact search is one of these, in which case it'll need a "machine-readable" API in libpurple before Haze can interact with it.

[Bilal Shahid (s9iper1)]

here is a bug in the launchpad i have make it its downstream.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/empathy/+bug/868024

[Fabio Mauri (mafabio)]

Are there any news about this topic?

[Bilal Shahid (s9iper1)]

thats an old bug any body still facing it than comment on its upstream plz

[naggappan (naggappan)]

i use ubuntu 14.04 and configured empathy with my gmail account. I am not able to search contact. Only able to set the status in top.