Send file on facebook chat

[Calysto]

Binary package hint: empathy

Empathy allows me to send files on facebook chat. I don't know if it's a illegal action. In all cases, my contact don't see the file and can't download it. My contact can speak to me with the chat of facebook page or with empathy, the problem is the same.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: empathy 2.29.93-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-17.26-generic 2.6.32.10+drm33.1
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-17-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Mar 28 13:23:32 2010
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/empathy
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Alpha i386 (20100326)
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=fr_CA.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: empathy
XsessionErrors: (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:1097): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

Facebook dont support file transfer. The reason that you are seeing able to send file is because empathy has not yet implemented facebook chat fully, when it does this option will be removed. Thanks

[Guillaume Desmottes (cassidy)]

No, that's because Ubuntu uses telepathy-gabble 0.8.x which doesn't implement the ContactCapabilites interface. If you use telepathy-gabble 0.9.x the file transfer menu item won't be sensitive for contacts not supporting file transfer, including the Facebook ones.