Just to keep you updated: I have implemented telepathy-whosthere, a telepathy connection manager for whatsapp. It makes incoming messages auto-magically appear in the message menu and answering from there works, too. It also automatically integrates with empathy on the ubuntu desktop. I based the implementation on telepathy-qt, but it turned out that a the support for connection managers in telepathy-qt is virtually non-existent. So I added that part to telepathy-qt, too. The files for all that are in my github/ppa.
I'm currently missing a graphical way to add the WhatsApp account (has to be done with mc-tool currently), this will come when the whosthere gui is ported to telepathy. 2013/3/5 Owais Lone <[email protected]> > Hi everyone, > > I would like to point out that Yowsup (github.com/tgalal/yowsup), the > open whatsapp library is not officially supported by Whatsapp. I'm using it > on N9 and whatsapp break compatibility more often than not. It takes hours > to days to get fixed. Just wanted to point that out in case this is being > discussed for inclusion by default. > > Cheers! > > > On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 8:29 AM, Matthias Gehre <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi Mika, >> >> regarding the legal issues: From my understanding (I'm not a lawyer!), >> it's forbidden to "explore outside the boundaries of the normal requests >> made by WhatsApp clients", but it does not mention alternative clients. >> Additionally, it seems that >> http://www.openwhatsapp.org (for the Blackberry 10, WebOS and N9) is at >> least tolerated. >> >> But I guess there are people at Canonical who are more knowledgeable >> about possible legal issues. >> >> Best wishes, >> Matthias >> >> >> 2013/3/4 Mika Meskanen <[email protected]> >> >>> I had a chat about this with Gustavo today, and based on that I think >>> it's clear that the design team need to provide a generic and scalable user >>> experience within "Telephony" for multiple services and accounts – be it >>> Skype, WhatsApp, Google Talk or something else. Luckily, that's always been >>> on the roadmap :) >>> >>> Considering Ubuntu's cross-platform convergence, that'd also be a client >>> that would work across the board, on the phone, tablet and desktop. >>> >>> However, it appears that WhatsApp does not provide an open API. I >>> suspect there are legal issues with that. >>> >>> >>> Regards, >>> Mika >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> On 4 March 2013 19:04, Daniel Holm <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> Hi all, >>>> >>>> I would also rather have the one-app integration. One of the things I >>>> really love about Ubuntu is to have all of my IM accounts in one >>>> application. Thats the Ubuntu way ;) >>>> >>>> Vänlig hälsning / Yours sincerely, >>>> Daniel Holm >>>> IT Consultant >>>> Web Developer >>>> Student >>>> [email protected] >>>> http://www.danielholm.se >>>> >>>> Den mån 4 mar 2013 19:43:52 skrev Renato Araujo Oliveira Filho: >>>> >>>> On 03/04/2013 03:13 PM, Matthias Gehre wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> I saw at >>>>>> http://telepathy.freedesktop.**org/wiki/Telepathy%20Python<http://telepathy.freedesktop.org/wiki/Telepathy%20Python>that >>>>>> telepathy-python is deprecated, and at I was told at >>>>>> #telepathy that pygobject and telepathy-glib does not work either. >>>>>> >>>>> Yes, telepathy phyton is deprecated. >>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> Can anyone enlighten me, if there is a supported way to write >>>>>> telepathy plugins in python? >>>>>> >>>>> I do not think so. >>>>> >>>>> If not, which backend is recommended? libtelepathy-glib or >>>>>> libtelepathy-qt5? >>>>>> >>>>> I asked a colabora engennier and he told me that, both are maintained >>>>> by >>>>> collabora, glib has more people working on that. >>>>> I would say to go with qt I think Gustavo is using that on >>>>> telephony-app >>>>> and he can help you on that. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>> -- >>>> Mailing list: >>>> https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-**phone<https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone> >>>> Post to : >>>> [email protected].**net<[email protected]> >>>> Unsubscribe : >>>> https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-**phone<https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone> >>>> More help : >>>> https://help.launchpad.net/**ListHelp<https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp> >>>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone >>> Post to : [email protected] >>> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone >>> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >>> >>> >> >> -- >> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone >> Post to : [email protected] >> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >> >> > > > -- > Owais Lone > http://www.owaislone.org >
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