Re: XMPP carbons

2016-08-30 Thread pidgin
I was under the impression that the patch was already added to Pidgin. Is there any compelling reason not to add it? Can you please provide a patched versions for users that lack the ability to compile Pidgin? On 30-08-2016 21:47, Eion Robb wrote: Unfortunately an end user cannot enable

Re: XMPP carbons

2016-08-30 Thread Eion Robb
Unfortunately an end user cannot enable carbons in Pidgin, it would require adding the patch to the source and recompiling Pidgin. There was work to bring this into mainline Pidgin code for Pidgin 3.0 as part of the summer of code 2015 On 31/08/2016 04:39, wrote: > Is

Re: contacts ?

2016-08-30 Thread Eion Robb
There's a "suggested contacts" list that you can invite people to the new messenger with but this is embedded into the website and I haven't yet found an api call that can be made to retrieve that list. On 31/08/2016 09:29, "Dave Warren" wrote: > On Tue, Aug 30, 2016, at

Re: Pidgin support: segfault in pidgin upon app launch

2016-08-30 Thread Eion Robb
Hi again, Which protocols are you seeing no buddies for? Are you actually connected to the accounts (see in Accounts->Manage Accounts... From the buddy list) and set to Online/Available in the buddy list? What protocols are you unable to connect to? You might need to email though a debug log

Re: contacts ?

2016-08-30 Thread Dave Warren
On Tue, Aug 30, 2016, at 09:35, pid...@alexoren.com wrote: > On 18-08-2016 02:55, Eion Robb wrote: > > Hi there, > > > > You can add buddies through the Buddies->Add Buddy... menu from the > > buddy list. We don't have a way of importing buddies from an email > > contact list though. > > > >

Re: Pidgin support: segfault in pidgin upon app launch

2016-08-30 Thread Eion Robb
Hi Cedric, This looks like it's crashing in the pidgin-encription plugin. Try uninstalling this plugin (or disabling by removing /usr/lib/pidgin/encrypt.so) and try again. You might also want to pass the backtrace onto the authors of that plugin to see if they can offer any advice on any

Re: XMPP carbons

2016-08-30 Thread pidgin
On 30-08-2016 12:39, pid...@alexoren.com wrote: Is there a way to set Pidgin to use carbons (XEP-0280)? I found this ticket https://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/15508, but it does not explain what an end-user needs to do to enable carbons. Use case: 1. Pidgin on desktop at home 2. Pidgin on

XMPP carbons

2016-08-30 Thread pidgin
Is there a way to set Pidgin to use carbons (XEP-0280)? I found this ticket https://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/15508, but it does not explain what an end-user needs to do to enable carbons. Use case: 1. Pidgin on desktop at home 2. Pidgin on desktop at work 3. Trillian on mobile Messages to be

Re: contacts ?

2016-08-30 Thread pidgin
On 18-08-2016 02:55, Eion Robb wrote: Hi there, You can add buddies through the Buddies->Add Buddy... menu from the buddy list. We don't have a way of importing buddies from an email contact list though. Cheers, Eion Given the impeding shut-down of the Yahoo protocol, it there a way to

Re: Pidgin support: segfault in pidgin upon app launch

2016-08-30 Thread Eion Robb
Hi Cedric, If you could follow the steps at https://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/GetABacktrace to get a backtrace from the segfault, that would be helpful in tracking down where the crashing was occuring. Cheers, Eion On 30 August 2016 at 18:59, Cedric Bhihe wrote: >

Pidgin support: segfault in pidgin upon app launch

2016-08-30 Thread Cedric Bhihe
Hello, === This is my second request for support. The first one on a different topic received zilch for an answer. I don't know whether this is because this discussion list is closed to newcomers or because my request was not correctly

Pidgin support: independent Unity bar icon in Ubuntu 14.04 not present?

2016-08-30 Thread Cedric Bhihe
Hello, my first post here. I just successfully installed and configured Pidgin (libpurple 2.10.9) along with plugins, among them - purple-hangouts - libpurple-bin - telegram-purple - purple-skypeweb. on a 64 bit Ubuntu 14.04 Desktop LTS install. Next to that I use Thunderbird as