no UI to make a group chat

[tutuca]

I'm reporting here because gnome's bugzilla won't letme start a new report...
MSN and Jabber (gtalk) both support group chats. It would be nice to have an UI into empathy to start a new group chat with my contacts. Something like, on the chat window to have an entry in the Chat menu to invite a contact to this conversation.

Regards.

[Zaki Manian (zmanian)]

Because of Voip and video support, Empathy is now the preferred Google Talk interface for Gnome-based Linux users. Group chat would be killer. This request is also out there for pidgin.

[Guillaume Desmottes (cassidy)]

Multi user chat is already implemented in Empathy (the Room menu).

There is an unmerged branch implementing invitations sending: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=496100

[tutuca (tutuca)]

Thanks Guillaume... I'm lcosing this bug due the fact that is not valid.
I hope to see the invitation branch merged in time for 8.10 :)

Keep on the great work

[tutuca (tutuca)]

oops, can't close it :þ

[Leandro (leandromartinez98)]

How come this is marked as fix released? I'm using empathy on 9.10 and I still can't find
how to invite someone to the chat room.

[David Rea (dave-daverea)]

Empathy 2.30.1 on Ubuntu 10.04 shows the "Invite to Chat Room" option on bringing up any contact's context menu (by right-clicking) but the option remains grayed out for Google Talk. Can this bug be reopened?

[whitepixel (whitepixel)]

I'm running Empathy 2.30.2 on Ubuntu 10.04 amd64. Group chat works for me, except you have to follow specific instructions to get it working as instructed here http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1460575.

Here's the instructions found at the link:

1) Connect to your google talk account with Empathy
2) In Contact List click on Room then Join
3) Make sure you have you google account selected
4) The room name must be "private-chat-<uuid>" (check below how to get uuid)
5) The server should be "groupchat.google.com
6) Click join!

In your terminal run "uuidgen" you will get a number similar to this "c9e943d0-ec5a-47d9-9151-c5c35d971e34".

So your room name will be

private-chat-c9e943d0-ec5a-47d9-9151-c5c35d971e34

[Saravanan Thirumuruganathan (saravanan-thirumuruganathan)]

I can confirm that whiepixel's solution works fine in google. i have not tested with others.

[Gonzalo Fernandez (gonz-it)]

Although whitepixel's solution works, it is not a full group chat implementation for the average user. Please dont' close this bug.