Idea #9874: Integrate Evolution with more IM clients

Written by randall29 the 14 Jun 08 at 13:58. Category: Internet & Networking.
Related to: Nothing/Others. Status: New

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Currently, Evolution can only sync its Address Book with Pidgin.
Some people, however, only use Emesene, or Amsn, or other IM client that doesn't use a proprietary protocol. Evolution should be able to integrate nicely with these too.

Ubuntu should help upstream GNOME to work out this limitation.

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eugene2k wrote on the 14 Jun 08 at 16:58

This should be possible soon with the help of "telepathy"

Exsecrabilus wrote on the 14 Jun 08 at 23:03

Ubuntu cannot do anything about this, ask the Pidgin development team. >_>

Exsecrabilus wrote on the 14 Jun 08 at 23:04

LOL I am so blind, I thought you were talking about Pidgin.

LOLZ I bet people will flame me for that mistake. XD

Ralf.Nieuwenhuijsen wrote on the 15 Jun 08 at 11:32

I see 2 solutions:

- Conduit. A generic solution for all synchronisation issues. This keeps the most freedom in what app you choose to use. It should be made part of gnome and 'built-in' support for synchronisation is to be removed.

- Telepathy. A sort of gstreamer for messaging.

I actually like both solutions, and they are not mutually exclusive.

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