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i keep getting

onDbus_fail Dbus error:Could not get owner of name 'com.yowsup.methods': no
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On Sat, Mar 9, 2013 at 1:29 AM, Matthias Gehre <M.Gehre@xxxxxx> wrote:

> 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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