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

Jonathan Frederickson jonathan at terracrypt.net
Tue Sep 22 13:57:25 PDT 2015


Oh wow, that even had video call support... this all makes me sad that MeeGo never went anywhere. :(

- Jon F.

On 9/22/15 4:53 PM, Olivier CrĂȘte wrote:
> 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 CrĂȘte <
>>> 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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