I agree we should probably document this.

PackageKit isn't standard enough that we should call it out though, we
should point the user to installing the backends - most distros have a
Telepathy metapackage that installs the most common ones.

Paul

On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 7:50 PM, Shaun McCance <[email protected]> wrote:

> If you don't have any Telepathy backends installed,
> the Accounts dialog gives tells you this:
>
>  No protocol installed
>  To add a new account, you first have to install
>  a backend for each protocol you want to use.
>
> Should we add a page for this?  Is this something
> we can even talk about in a generic way, or is it
> too distro-dependent?  Are enough distros using
> PackageKit that we can talk about that?
>
> I suspect most distros install at least the Jabber
> backend by default, if they install Empathy, so
> this error is probably rare.  But we might need
> generic instructions for installing backends to
> reference from pages for IRC or other protocols
> that might not have backends installed by default.
>
> --
> Shaun
>
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