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[Matthias Gehre <M.Gehre@xxxxxx>]

Just to keep you updated:
I have implemented telepathy-whosthere, a telepathy connection manager for
whatsapp. It makes incoming messages
auto-magically appear in the message menu and answering from there works,
too. It also automatically integrates with empathy
on the ubuntu desktop.
I based the implementation on telepathy-qt, but it turned out that a the
support for connection managers in telepathy-qt
is virtually non-existent. So I added that part to telepathy-qt, too.
The files for all that are in my github/ppa.

I'm currently missing a graphical way to add the WhatsApp account (has to
be done with mc-tool currently),
this will come when the whosthere gui is ported to telepathy.


2013/3/5 Owais Lone <hello@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

> Hi everyone,
>
> I would like to point out that Yowsup (github.com/tgalal/yowsup), the
> open whatsapp library is not officially supported by Whatsapp. I'm using it
> on N9 and whatsapp break compatibility more often than not. It takes hours
> to days to get fixed. Just wanted to point that out in case this is being
> discussed for inclusion by default.
>
> Cheers!
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 8:29 AM, Matthias Gehre <M.Gehre@xxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Hi Mika,
>>
>> regarding the legal issues: From my understanding (I'm not a lawyer!),
>> it's forbidden to "explore outside the boundaries of the normal requests
>> made by WhatsApp clients", but it does not mention alternative clients.
>> Additionally, it seems that
>> http://www.openwhatsapp.org (for the Blackberry 10, WebOS and N9) is at
>> least tolerated.
>>
>> But I guess there are people at Canonical who are more knowledgeable
>> about possible legal issues.
>>
>> Best wishes,
>> Matthias
>>
>>
>> 2013/3/4 Mika Meskanen <mika.meskanen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>>> 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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