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Re: instant messaging

 

Sylvie,

1) Are you referring to the menu seen in Figure 3.19? Does this need
removed?
2) I guess desktop sharing might only work with other contacts that meet
certain criteria. Maybe this is why you haven't had success with this?

Thanks,
Eric


On Fri, Apr 8, 2016 at 11:22 PM, Pravin Dhayfule <pravin@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Interestingly these days the way instant messaging is used has changed.
> People use phone for IM. Take Whatsap for instance. It is dominating the
> area of IM. But this is about India though. I can't claim this about other
> regions. This may be one reason why empathy may not be included by default
> in the build.
> Regards
> On 08-Apr-2016 11:10 pm, "Sylvie Gallet" <sylvie.gallet@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I added some stuff about how to install Empathy (it's no longer
>>> installed by default), modeled closely after what was done in the
>>> Brasero section. However, I'm having freezing problems when trying to
>>> add accounts. So it would be helpful if somebody else could verify that
>>> the remaining content in that section is still correct.
>>>
>>
>>   I've been able to create an account (gmail) and chat with one my
>> contacts.
>>
>>   There are two problems:
>> 1 - Empathy no longer appears in the messaging icon in the notification
>> area like Thunderbird does.
>> 2 - Desktop sharing doesn't seem to work (the option in the right-clic
>> menu of a contact is always dimmed.
>>
>>
>>
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