Public bug reported: 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. ** Affects: empathy Importance: Unknown Status: Unknown ** Affects: empathy (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Affects: gnome-control-center-signon (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Bug watch added: GNOME Bug Tracker #688495 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=688495 ** Also affects: empathy via https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=688495 Importance: Unknown Status: Unknown ** Also affects: empathy (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to empathy in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1079916 Title: Cannot add third-party Accounts To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/empathy/+bug/1079916/+subscriptions -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs