Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-gnome (92 mails)

["Bryen M. Yunashko" <suserocks@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 2010-03-01 at 15:17 +0100, Dominique Leuenberger wrote:
> > > > On 03/01/2010 at 3:00 PM, Vincent Untz <vuntz@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Le lundi 01 mars 2010, à 14:51 +0100, Dominique Leuenberger a écrit :
> > > Dear All,
> > >  
> > > I just saw that there was a new release of pidgin-facebookchat, a plugin 
> > > for 
> > purple based IMs.
> > > The question remains though if we believe it's useful to continue 
> > > providing 
> > this plugin, as facebook changed their rules and is now reachable using
> > > regular XMPP [0]. Explanation on how to configure various IMs is available 
> > as well [1]
> >
> > Empathy now uses the XMPP way to let people connect to facebook. But I
> > guess that as long as pidgin doesn't make it easy to configure a
> > facebook account via XMPP, the plugin might still be useful.
>
> Just had a look at this plugin, and considering that I can't find a bug 
> report that it's not working I think nobody uses it :) it actually fails to
> load due to -Wl,-as-needed, which of course does not fail on a library, as it 
> could well be that the main app does link the dependency. Nevertheless,
> nobody in the chain seems to link in json-glib and as such the module fails 
> to load (at least on my machine).
>
> So actually: does ANYBODY use this plugin?
>
> Dominique

I tried to get it to work a few weeks ago and couldn't make a go of it.
I planned to re-look at it again in the near future but got distracted.
I don't think the plugin actually works though.  

Bryen

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