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 > > > _______________________________________________ > gnome-doc-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-doc-list > >
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