freenode forwards your IRC server password to the nickserv. This is a feature of freenode, and is arguably much better than auto-identifying with the nickserv, but sadly other servers don't do this. Just for the sake of the argument though, is this really better in telepathy-idle than in Empathy? My understanding was that telepathy-idle was mainly there for providing the mechanisms and Empathy the interface, but the auto-identify hack makes use of mechanisms that are already present in telepathy-idle (basically /msg).
For the record, XChat also has a separate "nickserv password" field in its configuration, but doesn't let you specify an alternative nick for nickserv like Konversation does. Don't know if that is really necessary anyway.
freenode forwards your IRC server password to the nickserv. This is a feature of freenode, and is arguably much better than auto-identifying with the nickserv, but sadly other servers don't do this. Just for the sake of the argument though, is this really better in telepathy-idle than in Empathy? My understanding was that telepathy-idle was mainly there for providing the mechanisms and Empathy the interface, but the auto-identify hack makes use of mechanisms that are already present in telepathy-idle (basically /msg).
For the record, XChat also has a separate "nickserv password" field in its configuration, but doesn't let you specify an alternative nick for nickserv like Konversation does. Don't know if that is really necessary anyway.