Yeah well telepathy itself could be supporting everything, but I guess it would be Ubuntu's telepathy client limitations, right? I haven't tried it, but I mean I haven't seen a telepathy client (yet) which displays delivery receipts (even when telepathy itself supports it). Same case for displaying contacts' "last seen at" and group icons. And these are only a few thing on top of my head. Also what about Emoji support? I released BB10 client like 4 days ago and already getting a lot of complaints for not supporting Emoji.
On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 7:03 PM, Matthias Gehre <[email protected]>wrote: > To clarify: ubuntu phone messaging menu/empaty/ KDE telepathy etc, can > already be used, but they only show the "content" field of the message. > > > 2013/3/13 Matthias Gehre <[email protected]> > >> Hi Tarek, >> >> I'm Matthias, the developer of whosthere, a whatsapp client for ubuntu / >> ubuntu phone. It's implemented as a telepathy service (using yowsp). There >> shouldn't be any features missing by using telepathy, everything is/can be >> wrapped into telepathy. (Receipts are supported natively by telepathy, >> image, location and so on are implemented as extended messages parameters). >> For example, a location is send as >> content-type=plain/text >> content= "location: \"" << name << "\" at >> https://maps.google.com/maps?q="; << latitude << "," << longitude; >> x-whosthere-latitude = latitude >> x-whosthere-longitude = longitude >> >> I also wrote a small GUI (on QML2, because QML1 is not supported on >> ubuntu touch), which is necessary for telepathy account creation. >> And also supports all those x-whosthere-* fields. >> But in the long run the ubuntu phone messaging menu on the phone/empaty/ >> KDE telepathy etc, may be better GUIs for actual conversations (when >> x-whosthere-* can be integrated into the telepathy spec) >> >> The GUI is at https://github.com/mgehre/whosthere >> The telepathy-cm is at https://github.com/mgehre/telepathy-whosthere >> >> Best wishes, >> Matthias >> >> >> >> 2013/3/13 Tarek Galal <[email protected]> >> >>> Hello, >>> >>> My name is Tarek, I'm author of Yowsup, and WhatsApp clients on N9 and >>> BB10 (Wazapp and OpenWhatsapp). It's great to see you guys already working >>> on a client for Ubuntu phone, which happens to be also based on Yowsup. I >>> don't know if you are aiming for a standalone UI, or only a telepathy >>> plugin. Although a telepathy plugin would integrate nicely with the system, >>> I think it would however force dropping some main features in WhatsApp, for >>> instance, display of receipts for sent and delivered messages. And that's >>> why I went for a standalone UI on meego/harmattan even though it ships with >>> telepathy. Perhaps a combination of both, a plugin, and a UI could work >>> together? Anyway, I'm writing to you, in case you need any help using the >>> library or writing a UI. If you're going for a complete UI, Wazapp is >>> already in QML, and I can port it to use Ubuntu Components. So please let >>> me know. >>> >>> Best Regards, >>> Tarek >>> >>> -- >>> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone >>> Post to : [email protected] >>> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone >>> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >>> >>> >> > -- Regards, Tarek Galal http://jadb.wordpress.com
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