[Bug 40337] New: Improve error reporting for invalid accounts

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40337

           Summary: Improve error reporting for invalid accounts
           Product: Telepathy
           Version: git master
          Platform: Other
        OS/Version: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: medium
         Component: mission-control
        AssignedTo: telepathy-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org
        ReportedBy: will.thompson at collabora.co.uk
         QAContact: telepathy-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org


On the mailing list, Christophe-Marie Duquesne wrote:

> What do you do to add a gtalk account? I am stuck with:
> 
> mc-tool add gabble/jabber myuser at gmail.com string:password=mypassword
> 
> Whatever I do, I always end with the same error
> mc-tool: The supplied CM parameters were not valid
> (which is apparently not a message from mc-tool.c)

The message comes from MC itself. As I remarked on the list, this is a
particularly unhelpful message, given that MC knows perfectly well which
parameter(s) were invalid. I have the beginnings of a branch to fix this.

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