*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1070377 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1070377
note that you can still run empathy-account to add those accounts... -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to empathy in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1079916 Title: Cannot add third-party Accounts Status in Chat app, and Telepathy user interface: Incomplete Status in “empathy” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Status in “gnome-control-center-signon” package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: 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. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/empathy/+bug/1079916/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp