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The messaging app on the Nokia N900 was also based on libpurple. You had all of your Google Talk and Skype contacts and chats, together with SMS in a single pla

by bergie 5y ago

The messaging app on the Nokia N900 was also based on libpurple. You had all of your Google Talk and Skype contacts and chats, together with SMS in a single place.

wjt 5y ago
It was based on Telepathy https://telepathy.freedesktop.org/ https://telepathy.freedesktop.org/. None of the built-in backends for XMPP, SIP, Skype and cellular calls used libpurple. (A libpurple-based backend could be installed from the community app repo.)
- pabs3 5y ago
  I wish Telepathy got more popularity, it seemed to be a better architecture than Pidgin/libpurple with the protocol support in separate processes etc.
  - wjt 5y ago
    Well, me too, having spent the best part of half a decade working on it! But I broadly agree with Rob McQueen's assessment of how the architecture turned out to be fatally flawed. http://web.archive.org/web/20210427061305/https://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2017-September/msg00047.html http://web.archive.org/web/20210427061305/https://mail.gnome...
    - pabs3 5y ago
      The crashes I still experience in libpurple backends today still lead me to prefer the Telepathy architecture.