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Bug 593083 - Typing notification in empathy doesn't work for google talk contacts
Typing notification in empathy doesn't work for google talk contacts
Status: RESOLVED NOTGNOME
Product: empathy
Classification: Core
Component: Chat
2.27.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: empathy-maint
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2009-08-25 21:15 UTC by Brian Curtis
Modified: 2010-01-11 12:40 UTC
See Also:
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Description Brian Curtis 2009-08-25 21:15:06 UTC 
When a gtalk contact is typing to me in a chat, empathy doesn't notify me of that. When an MSN contact is typing, I can see the green icon in front of the contact name turn into a "user is typing" icon, so I guess it's a bug specific to gtalk accounts. I have not tested other accounts besides Google Talk and MSN.
Empathy version: The default jaunty but also version 2.27.3-2ubuntu1~ppa9.04+1 from the ppa.

To be more precise: When empathy is used as a Google talk client on one side of a chat session, typing notification is broken for both peers. It seems that empathy neither displays this type of notification nor sends such information to the remote side.

From downstream Ubuntu
https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/empathy/+bug/399039
Comment 1 Johan Brannlund 2009-10-26 20:17:41 UTC 
This bug is still there on Empathy 2.28.1.
Comment 2 Guillaume Desmottes 2009-10-29 10:08:52 UTC 
Just tried and it works fine. Which client is used by the other peer?
Comment 3 Johan Brannlund 2009-10-29 23:21:19 UTC 
My friend uses the Google web chat (inside gmail).

When I also use that (instead of Empathy), the typing notification works.
Comment 4 S. 2009-11-02 22:15:00 UTC 
Between Pidgin and Empathy 2.28.1.1 on Ubuntu Karmic, I can confirm this bug.
Comment 5 Will Thompson 2010-01-08 15:14:34 UTC 
This was a bug/limitation in Gabble. I fixed it in telepathy-gabble 0.9.3:

• Allow sending chat state to contacts whose capabilities we don't know,
  such as invisible Google Talk users (wjt)

I didn't realise at the time that it was also an issue for visible Google Talk users: I think they changed the capabilities they report or something.

This fix wasn't backported to 0.8.x.
Comment 6 Guillaume Desmottes 2010-01-08 16:23:09 UTC 
Cool; thanks for the info Will.
Closing the bug then.
Comment 7 Guillaume Desmottes 2010-01-11 12:40:00 UTC 
(In reply to comment #5)
> This fix wasn't backported to 0.8.x.

It is now.