> On 18 Oct 2017, at 16:53, Adrian Perez de Castro <ape...@igalia.com> wrote: > >> On Wed, 18 Oct 2017 14:21:34 +0100, Simon McVittie <s...@collabora.com> >> wrote: >>> On Wed, 18 Oct 2017 at 11:42:40 +0300, pec...@gmail.com wrote: >>> Is there any interest/desire to see Google Hangouts support in Empathy and >>> Telepathy? Or as Telepathy is on it's way out it is no interest? >> >> Telepathy can't have Google Hangouts support unless someone >> reverse-engineers the protocol (which is closed/proprietary, if I >> understand correctly) well enough to write a "connection manager" >> (protocol backend) for it. The design of Telepathy means that Empathy >> would immediately get basic support for any protocol where a connection >> manager exists; but writing that connection manager is a significant >> amount of work. > > There's the Telepathy-Hangups connection manager: > > https://github.com/davidedmundson/telepathy-hangups > > It hasn't received updates for years, but provided that it's just an adaptor > for Telepathy that uses the Hangups library, which is the one actually > implementing the Hangouts protocol, that maybe is not much of an issue. Also, > Hangups seems to be well maintained: > > https://github.com/tdryer/hangups/
Hangups seems to work pretty stably and well, and there are several experimental matrix<->hangouts bridges out there via hangups. If someone finished one of them off it would be a very viable option. _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
