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

[Olivier Crête]

Hi,

Collabora also wrote a QML based Telepathy UI for the long defunct
Meego Tablet project, there may be some code that can be re-usd from
there.

https://github.com/meego-tablet-ux/meego-app-im

Olivier

On Tue, 2015-09-22 at 13:52 -0400, Jonathan Frederickson wrote:
> Ubuntu Touch's built-in messaging client is based on Telepathy, but
> it can currently only send and receive SMS and MMS
> messages. I'm not sure, but Canonical's plan may be to extend this
> client so that it's a more general Telepathy client
> and making its UI responsive - essentially, replacing Empathy for
> their desktop.
> 
> - Jon F.
> 
> On 9/22/15 1:39 PM, 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
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