(In reply to comment #6) > The normal way to list channels in a dedicated IRC client like irssi is with > "/list PATTERN", which lists channels matching PATTERN (which is a shell-style > glob, I think?).
Actually, this isn't how this works: LIST only supports specifying a single channel name, to get its number of occupants and topic (or an error if it doesn't exist). Some, but not all, servers run an ‘alis’ bot that you can query with. What we should do is what irssi does to selectively enable the “not a good idea” warning: send LUSERS to the server while connecting, and look at the RPL_LUSERCHANNELS message in the reply to see how many channels there are. If that number is over some threshold, don't offer RoomList channels. Later we could add a way to query; that could be made selectively available by looking for a user called 'alis', maybe. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to telepathy-idle in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/426795 Title: empathy can't get roomlist (from irc.freenode.net) Status in A full-featured IRC connection manager for telepathy.: Confirmed Status in “telepathy-idle” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: Binary package hint: empathy empathy (2.27.91.1-2ubuntu5) steps to reproduce: - add a (freenode) IRC Account - click Room > [Join Room] Room List - nothing happens Debug Information [Help>Debug]: empathy/Other-DEBUG: 1,252499e+09: builder_get_file_valist: Loading file /usr/share/empathy/empathy-new-chatroom-dialog.ui empathy/Tp-DEBUG: 1,252499e+09: tp_roomlist_finalize: Closing channel... empathy/Tp-DEBUG: 1,252499e+09: tp_roomlist_request_channel_cb: Error requesting channel: unsupported channel type org.freedesktop.Telepathy.Channel.Type.RoomList ProblemType: Bug Architecture: amd64 Date: Wed Sep 9 14:26:29 2009 DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia Package: empathy 2.27.91.1-2ubuntu5 ProcEnviron: LANG=de_AT.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-10.30-generic SourcePackage: empathy Uname: Linux 2.6.31-10-generic x86_64 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/telepathy-idle/+bug/426795/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
