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[Tarek Galal <tare2.galal@xxxxxxxxx>]

Yeah well telepathy itself could be supporting everything, but I guess it
would be Ubuntu's telepathy client limitations, right? I haven't tried it,
but I mean I haven't seen a telepathy client (yet) which displays delivery
receipts (even when telepathy itself supports it). Same case for displaying
contacts' "last seen at" and group icons. And these are only a few thing on
top of my head. Also what about Emoji support?  I released BB10 client like
4 days ago and already getting a lot of complaints for not supporting Emoji.

On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 7:03 PM, Matthias Gehre <gehre.matthias@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> To clarify: ubuntu phone messaging menu/empaty/ KDE telepathy etc, can
> already be used, but they only show the "content" field of the message.
>
>
> 2013/3/13 Matthias Gehre <gehre.matthias@xxxxxxxxx>
>
>> Hi Tarek,
>>
>> I'm Matthias, the developer of whosthere, a whatsapp client for ubuntu /
>> ubuntu phone. It's implemented as a telepathy service (using yowsp). There
>> shouldn't be any features missing by using telepathy, everything is/can be
>> wrapped into telepathy. (Receipts are supported natively by telepathy,
>> image, location and so on are implemented as extended messages parameters).
>> For example, a location is send as
>> content-type=plain/text
>> content= "location: \"" << name  << "\" at
>> https://maps.google.com/maps?q="; << latitude << "," << longitude;
>> x-whosthere-latitude = latitude
>> x-whosthere-longitude = longitude
>>
>> I also wrote a small GUI (on QML2, because QML1 is not supported on
>> ubuntu touch), which is necessary for telepathy account creation.
>> And also supports all those x-whosthere-* fields.
>> But in the long run the ubuntu phone messaging menu on the phone/empaty/
>> KDE telepathy etc, may be better GUIs for actual conversations (when
>> x-whosthere-* can be integrated into the telepathy spec)
>>
>> The GUI is at https://github.com/mgehre/whosthere
>> The telepathy-cm is at https://github.com/mgehre/telepathy-whosthere
>>
>> Best wishes,
>> Matthias
>>
>>
>>
>> 2013/3/13 Tarek Galal <tare2.galal@xxxxxxxxx>
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> My name is Tarek, I'm author of Yowsup, and WhatsApp clients on N9 and
>>> BB10 (Wazapp and OpenWhatsapp). It's great to see you guys already working
>>> on a client for Ubuntu phone, which happens to be also based on Yowsup. I
>>> don't know if you are aiming for a standalone UI, or only a telepathy
>>> plugin. Although a telepathy plugin would integrate nicely with the system,
>>> I think it would however force dropping some main features in WhatsApp, for
>>> instance, display of receipts for sent and delivered messages. And that's
>>> why I went for a standalone UI on meego/harmattan even though it ships with
>>> telepathy. Perhaps a combination of both, a plugin, and a UI could work
>>> together? Anyway, I'm writing to you, in case you need any help using the
>>> library or writing a UI. If you're going for a complete UI, Wazapp is
>>> already in QML, and I can port it to use Ubuntu Components. So please let
>>> me know.
>>>
>>> Best Regards,
>>> Tarek
>>>
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>>
>


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Tarek Galal
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