(In reply to comment #59)
> Ideally, that distinctive message header should be a machine-readable
> version of the message, so OTR-literate UIs (Empathy) can discard the
> untranslated version from Gabble and display something translated. We've
> always had a policy of putting UI strings and their translations in the UIs,
> not the CMs.
The more I think about this, the more I think Gabble should not contain
translated strings. It's OK for it to contain strings in the C locale
(international English), but all translation should be taking place
somewhere that already needs to be translated - the UIs.
As a purely practical thing, Gabble does not have any of the translation
machinery, so those strings aren't going to be translated anyway.
Is the OtrlMessageEvent enum sufficiently stable that we can use it in
the D-Bus API directly? That would probably be the easiest way. The only
other information we need to put in the message header is:
- for OTRL_MSGEVENT_SETUP_ERROR: gcry_strerror (err)
(perhaps { "otr-error": that string })
- for various codes: the username or account name, which the UI already
knows anyway
- for OTRL_MSGEVENT_RCVDMSG_UNENCRYPTED: the unencrypted message
(perhaps { "otr-unencrypted-message": that string })
- for OTRL_MSGEVENT_RCVDMSG_GENERAL_ERR: the message
(perhaps { "otr-error": that string })
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/296867
Title:
empathy needs to support OTR encryption
Status in Chat app, and Telepathy user interface:
Confirmed
Status in One Hundred Papercuts:
Invalid
Status in Telepathy framework - library:
Confirmed
Status in “empathy” package in Ubuntu:
Triaged
Status in “libtelepathy” package in Ubuntu:
Confirmed
Status in “empathy” package in Fedora:
Won't Fix
Bug description:
Binary package hint: empathy
Hello,
I just tried empathy (the Intrepid version) and it looked very solid and
stable. There were a few minor things that could be improved (e.g.
automatically resizing the contact list), but that is not the topic here.
The reason why I won't switch to empathy from pidgin is the missing OTR
support (http://www.cypherpunks.ca/otr/ ). This is a really important feature
because no one should read your messages.
There were others with the same idea (links at the bottom).
Would be so great if it could support that important encryption standard.
Thanks for helping out!
Links:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/empathy/+bug/253452/comments/2
http://lists.cypherpunks.ca/pipermail/otr-users/2008-September/001479.html
http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16891
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