Hi, > -----Original Message----- > From: telepathy- > [email protected] > [mailto:telepathy- > [email protected]] On Behalf Of > ext Will Thompson > Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 2010 11:54 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Telepathy] MXit protocol support > > On 11/05/10 21:10, [email protected] wrote: > > I noticed that Empathy (included with Ubuntu 10.04) now includes the > > MXit protocol option (via telepathy-haze). > > > > It unfortunately does not work since the first time you connect to > > MXit it needs to authorize some account information (country, > > language, anti-bot captcha). > > This is requested from the user using purple_request_fields(), and I > > see that telepathy-haze doesn't implement that API > > (http://git.collabora.co.uk/?p=telepathy- > haze.git;a=blob;f=src/request.c). > > > > Are there any issues in getting this API implemented? > > Yes: telepathy-haze doesn't present any UI itself, so it can't show > dialog boxes. This is why the purple_request_* API isn't implemented. > > I think the way out of this is, unfortunately, to have a channel type > for captchas and stuff, which would look pretty much like the > authentication channels Eitan is working on.
If anybody is going to work on this, please also consider approval of EULA/TOS. This is important for some proprietary services. Best regards, Mikhail _______________________________________________ telepathy mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/telepathy
