[Bug 30965] connection to MySpace with an email address doesn't complete

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30965

--- Comment #4 from Simon McVittie <simon.mcvittie at collabora.co.uk> 2010-10-19 03:42:58 PDT ---
(In reply to comment #3)
> Pidgin reported that a username had not been created on my Myspace account.  It
> offered me the ability to create one.

Right, that'd be the problem. libpurple is designed to implement a client that
basically looks like Pidgin, so protocol plugins assume that it's OK to pop up
random questions/messages/dialog boxes and wait for the user to answer them.

In the Haze log, we can see that libpurple tried to do so:

purple/msim_is_username_set-MESSAGE: 10/18/2010 10:55:03.806333: no username is
set
purple/msim_is_username_set-MESSAGE: 10/18/2010 10:55:03.806390: 'username not
set' alert prompted

However, telepathy-haze has no way to display these questions or do anything
about them (because it's not actually in the same process as the user
interface).

>  I created one and Pidgin was able to
> connect to my MySpace account.  Then i quit Pidgin and quit Empathy.  Then I
> reopened Empathy and it was then able to connect to my Myspace account using my
> existing credentials (email address of MySpace account and password).

As a workaround for this, we could try to make it clearer in the Empathy UI
that you really do need to "create a username" (presumably you can also do this
via the web?) before signing in to MySpace. Facebook Chat via XMPP has a
similar issue, except that in Facebook, you can *only* "create a username" via
the web (to the best of my knowledge).

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