[Telepathy] How configure Facebook chat support (Ubuntu 14.04)

[Peter Bittner]

Thank you Martin,

IIUC, Facebook is simply not supported at all at the moment:
telepathy-haze has no reference to Facebook in their latest source
code [1], just Jabber, but that's what was dropped, isn't it?

I have updated the Wiki pages FAQ and Protocols [2, 3] to reflect this
better. Would be nice if you and other could proof-read. Also, there
are still some dangling links (e.g. "See also the Telepathy FAQ") and
probably outdated information in the FAQ article.

Peter

[1] https://hg.pidgin.im/pidgin/main/file/b4e5abab1114/libpurple/protocols
[2] https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Empathy/FAQ#How_can_I_connect_to_.28a_protocol.29_in_Empathy.3F_.28Facebook.2C_Google.2C_Yahoo.2C_....29
[3] https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Empathy/Protocols



2015-09-22 3:56 GMT+02:00 Martin Klapetek <mklapetek at kde.org>:
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 6:36 PM, Peter Bittner <peter.bittner at gmx.net>
> wrote:
>>
>> The documentation online [1] suggests that using Facebook's messenger
>> is possible with Empathy. Unfortunately, the link to the detailed
>> description of the configuration is broken [1].
>>
>> Can anybody tell how this can be configured? And maybe fix the dangling
>> link?
>
>
> Facebook currently dropped their chat for 3rd party apps,
> so this will not work anymore.
>
> There are some other projects trying to reverse-engineer
> the protocol and offer at least some functionality, but it'll
> require some more investigation and/or Googling.
>
> See https://github.com/jgeboski/purple-facebook/wiki
>
> It's for libpurple, but telepathy-haze is a wrapper around
> libpurple and so it should work. Somehow.
>
> Cheers
> --
> Martin Klapetek | KDE Developer