*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1070377 ***
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1070377
** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 1070377
Empathy change to Online Accounts no longer supports SIPE
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1079916
Title:
Cannot add third-party Accounts
Status in Chat app, and Telepathy user interface:
Incomplete
Status in “empathy” package in Ubuntu:
Triaged
Status in “gnome-control-center-signon” package in Ubuntu:
New
Bug description:
Adding a third party account, such as ones from telepathy-haze, is something
I find vital.
In 12.04, if I wanted to add an account in Empathy, I could choose any of the
accounts supported - whether it was an telepathy plugin, a libpurple plugin
through telepathy-haze, or otherwise. Adding a new account type was as simple
as installing the libpurple libraries.
In 12.10, empathy switched to using the "Online Accounts" program (as far as
I know, that's in the gnome-control-center-signon package). With this package,
if you want to use anything unsupported with an *explicit plugin for Online
Accounst* ....well, you're out of luck.
Please provide an option to allow third party accounts, or at least a simple
method of integrating them into Online Accounts.
While I'm all for integration and unification, I am against it being used to
limit functionality.
I require plugins like SIPe for work and my own custom telepathy libraries to
function. The loss of this functionality is a serious regression and should be
treated as such.
Thank you.
Detailed info:
1) Ubuntu 12.10
2)
a. gnome-control-center-signon version: 0.0.18-0ubuntu1
b. empathy version: 3.6.0.3-0ubuntu1
3) I expected to be able to use third-party libpurple libraries through
telepathy-haze and other telepathy libraries created by myself. SIPe is a
necessary function for my work.
4) I am limited to the options provided within the "Online Accounts" program
within Ubuntu. SIPe can no longer be used as it used to in 12.04.
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