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Idea #8446: Pidgin: Support facebook protocol

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Written by dagotariel the 12 May 08 at 22:12. Category: Internet & Networking. Related project: Nothing/Others. Status: Not an idea
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Pidgin support many protocols, including myspace protocol. Now is facebook protocol turn
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Written by dagotariel the 12 May 08 at 22:12.
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Mishtal wrote on the 13 May 08 at 00:21
I believe that the developers of Pidgin are considering supporting the Facebook protocol.
I suggest you submit a suggestion to www.Pidgin.im (the web address for the pidgin project), you never know, someone might have beaten you to it.

Auzy wrote on the 13 May 08 at 04:47
I like the idea..

But I think pidgin is one of those projects, that whilst are great now, its one of those projects that need to die so that linux can move forward (or at least be rewritten).


No AV support, or desire to add it is a pretty big limitation, especially considering MSN messenger has supported it for probably 6 years or longer now. And its no good supporting 30,000 protocols, when all you can do is text messaging. I dunno if its because the code is a nightmare, or if its because no developers are interested though.


So 0. I think its a good idea, I certainly dont think its a bad idea, but we have to be honest about the pidgin project. Its living in the past (along with XMMS).

Windows's default messaging program supports AV perfectly, OSX's ichat support's AV over jabber AND AIM, as well as conference chats. We support, well, just chatting...

xapient wrote on the 13 May 08 at 08:35
1- i really don't like the protocol jungle out there.. think about it.. if there were as many email protocols .. would you appreciate that? USE JABBER !!!

no one should support any other non free chat protocol..

just my 2 cents...

holizz wrote on the 13 May 08 at 16:06
-1 I hate Pidgin and I hate Facebook even more.

Warbo wrote on the 15 May 08 at 08:42
-1 NO NEED! Have a read of this http://coccinella.im/never-support-walled-gardens

Facebook is switching to XMPP (Jabber), so adding support is a waste of time since things are going the other way and Facebook are adding support for Pidgin (along with every other XMPP program, of course, since XMPP is a standard)!

Doesn't mean I like Facebook though :P

BigBrownChunx wrote on the 15 May 08 at 20:14
I've been working on this as a 3rd party plugin to Pidgin already. It's a little buggy at this stage, and can only download the buddy list and send messages, but you can grab it from http://code.google.com/p/pidgin-facebookchat/

Endolith wrote on the 9 Sep 08 at 20:33
http://www.getdeb.net/app/pidgin-facebook

Auzy wrote on the 9 Sep 08 at 23:38
We should be focusing on Empathy at this time..

Vahan Harutyunyan (Brainstorm moderator) wrote on the 10 Nov 12 at 18:37
Please direct your suggestion to the Pidgin developers at http://www.pidgin.im/support/ .

Closing in Brainstorm.


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