[Telepathy] Empathy port to ARM architecture (Ubuntu Touch)?

[Olivier Crête]

Hi,

Empathy is the client for GNOME, so it's really focused on the GNOME
desktop. The fact that the Ubuntu people use it is mostly historical.
If you want to write a new IM client, you should just start from
scratch based on either Telepathy or even better, just on libpurple
directly.

That said, old fashioned IM has mostly disappeared for regular people
and the replacement protocols, Facebook, Skype, Hangouts, etc, are not
suitable for the kind of APIs that were developed a decade ago like
libpurple or Telepathy. Old protocols were based on carrying messages,
while newer ones are mostly a view on a "mailbox" which is stored on
the server so you can keep your conversation across devices and the
web. Also, the large majority of real users are now using closed garden
systems, making open clients much more painful to develop as everything
needs to be reverse-engineered.

Olivier

On Tue, 2015-09-22 at 19:39 +0200, Peter Bittner wrote:
> Is it possible to use most of Empathy's logic, and plugin-in a
> QML-powered user interface on it?
> 
> A bit like the Fahrplan developers did it at
> https://github.com/smurfy/fahrplan/tree/master/src/gui? (I understand
> that the difference technology-wise may be larger than in that
> project.)
> 
> If convergence is going to happen on the Ubuntu platform a
> "responsive" Empathy implementation will be needed anyway. Could be
> good to kick this off now. A clean separation would also allow to
> implement a 100% web-based HTML5 Empathy client. Wouldn't that be
> nice, too?
> 
> Peter
> 
> 
> 2015-09-22 19:30 GMT+02:00 Olivier Crête <olivier.crete at collabora.com
> >:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > Empathy works fine on ARM, but it is a desktop application, so you
> > need
> > to be running a regular desktop environment. The Ubuntu Touch
> > platform
> > is a completely different platform requiring custom applications
> > for
> > everything.
> > 
> > 
> > On Tue, 2015-09-22 at 00:39 +0200, Peter Bittner wrote:
> > > Are there any plans to port Empathy the ARM architecture, so that
> > > it
> > > would be installable on Ubuntu Touch mobile phones?
> > > 
> > > Peter
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Olivier Crête
olivier.crete at collabora.com