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Re: [App] WhatsApp for Ubuntu Phone (alpha)

 

I had a chat about this with Gustavo today, and based on that I think it's
clear that the design team need to provide a generic and scalable user
experience within "Telephony" for multiple services and accounts – be it
Skype, WhatsApp, Google Talk or something else. Luckily, that's always been
on the roadmap :)

Considering Ubuntu's cross-platform convergence, that'd also be a client
that would work across the board, on the phone, tablet and desktop.

However, it appears that WhatsApp does not provide an open API. I suspect
there are legal issues with that.


Regards,
Mika




On 4 March 2013 19:04, Daniel Holm <d.holmen@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I would also rather have the one-app integration. One of the things I
> really love about Ubuntu is to have all of my IM accounts in one
> application. Thats the Ubuntu way ;)
>
> Vänlig hälsning / Yours sincerely,
>  Daniel Holm
>  IT Consultant
>  Web Developer
>  Student
>  d.holmen@xxxxxxxxx
>  http://www.danielholm.se
>
> Den mån  4 mar 2013 19:43:52 skrev Renato Araujo Oliveira Filho:
>
>  On 03/04/2013 03:13 PM, Matthias Gehre wrote:
>>
>>> I saw at http://telepathy.freedesktop.**org/wiki/Telepathy%20Python<http://telepathy.freedesktop.org/wiki/Telepathy%20Python>that
>>> telepathy-python is deprecated, and at I was told at
>>> #telepathy that pygobject and telepathy-glib does not work either.
>>>
>> Yes,  telepathy phyton is deprecated.
>>
>>>
>>> Can anyone enlighten me, if there is a supported way to write
>>> telepathy plugins in python?
>>>
>> I do not think so.
>>
>>  If not, which backend is recommended? libtelepathy-glib or
>>> libtelepathy-qt5?
>>>
>> I asked a colabora engennier and he told me that, both are maintained by
>> collabora,  glib has more people working on that.
>> I would say to go with qt I think Gustavo is using that on telephony-app
>> and he can help you on that.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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