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[Simon McVittie <296867@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

(In reply to comment #91)
> Realization of the first three points would require adding a new interface
> to gabble. I imagine it as an extension of connection interface providing
> settings individually for every account. Would using gdbus codegen just
> like in case of the currently implemented otr channel be acceptable here?

You could make it go "next to" the Connection just like Xavier's code
produces an object "next to" the Channel, yes.

(Unfortunately, the fact that, in general, telepathy-glib uses the
deprecated dbus-glib instead of GDBus is not going to get fixed, unless
someone with a lot more time available than me picks it up. See the
various "Telepathy 1.0" bugs for details.)

> I
> suppose that adding these features would mean some major changes in the
> current implementation which is completely closed in the channel interface.

Making behind-the-scenes C function calls between the Connection and
Channel objects is fine.

> There are also things that need to be fixed as stated above:
> ...
> I understand that they have to be done first before introducing new changes?

Yes, I think that would be better than hoping they will be fixed later.

I consider those fixes to be merge blockers for these branches, because
I don't want to add an interop and security feature that, on closer
inspection, turns out to be non-interoperable or insecure :-)

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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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