Congrats on karmic, looking forward lucid

Dean Sas dean at deansas.org
Fri Nov 6 13:36:48 GMT 2009


On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 10:48, Bryan Quigley <gquigs at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 3:08 AM, Sebastien Bacher <seb128 at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>> Le jeudi 05 novembre 2009 à 23:37 +0530, Bryan Quigley a écrit :
>>> Empathy is much more limiting than I initially thought, and far less
>>> useful than promised. Maybe when telepathy is actually used by
>>> anything else it will become useful
>> Could you give some details on that statement? It should allow to use
>> the same protocols, send files on standard ones and do video calls,
>> which other feature should we work on next cycle?

> Sure thing.
>
> "more limiting":
>  -specifically you can't connect to Google Apps, because the option
> Domain don't appear in empathy - or.. I am still looking for the
> option..

It does work. I'm not at my computer with it configured right now, but
from memory you enter your user at example.com in the Login ID field, set
the server to 'talk.google.com' and check 'enable old ssl', you may
have to set port to 5223 too.

There is a bug filed for this being inconvenient.

dsas



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