GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 596086
initial empathy account wizard (Welcome Screen) does not offer IRC as an account
Last modified: 2011-08-29 10:12:37 UTC
In both Ubuntu Karmic Koala alpha 5 and alpha 6, when starting the empathy IM client, the wizard that starts gives a list of accounts available to create. In this list, IRC is missing. I've seen this both on the live environment and a clean install. The workaround is to exit and go to Edit -> Accounts (F4) and Add an account. IRC is listed in this location. A new user that installs Karmic, may want to get to IRC #ubuntu channel, and this gives the initial perception that they cannot accomplish this. This has been confirmed, and there is an accociated Launchpad bug report. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/empathy/+bug/433714
This is by design. But maybe we could consider to add IRC support for 2.30. Mpt: thoughts?
Empathy is currently a pretty poor IRC client so I think the current UI makes sense. There is some vague plans to create a separated Telepathy client for IRC/Muc chat.
Hi, I'm experiencing the same problem and I'm probably misunderstanding something, as the current UI doesn't make sense for me: * You don't allow someone to add an IRC account, * But if he adds a jabber account first, * Then you allow him to add an IRC account? How does that help in anything?! I can accept Empathy being a poor IRC client, but forcing people to have a second account before joining IRC really does not make any sense to me.
You don't have to create a jabber account. You can just skip the assistant and create an irc account using the accounts dialog.
Then there must be something wrong with the Ubuntu Lucid version of Empathy (2.29.92-0ubuntu2), because I need to have at least one account to view the accounts dialog, otherwise I'm getting the assistant. So I have to create a jabber (or other) account before I can use my IRC account.
Oh you're right, that's the behaviour now. So yeah, we should definitely add IRC support to the wizard.
Also most of the support is done via irc, I was stuck with this bug when booted into livecd and needed some additional help from irc channel.
*** Bug 625958 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
I'm sure it's a lot more complicated than I make it out to be, but it seems to me if you remove the strdiff for "irc" in account_assistant_chooser_enter_details_filter_func, won't that make empathy_protocol_chooser_set_visible display IRC in the Assistant? Please, no offense intended, I'm only trying to help GNOME get better and this is one that has been bugging me and I just wanted to do what I can to speed it up. Jeff
sorry, did not include that I'm talking about empathy-account-assistant.c
That's probably a bit more complicated than that because the IRC account widget doesn't have a "simple" version.
thanks for the response, it makes sense, just thought I'd bring it up...
*** Bug 612898 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Created attachment 168803 [details] [review] http://git.Collabora.co.uk/?p=user/cassidy/empathy;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/irc-wizard-596086 libempathy-gtk/empathy-account-widget-irc.c | 41 +++++++++++++++++ libempathy-gtk/empathy-account-widget-irc.h | 3 + libempathy-gtk/empathy-account-widget-irc.ui | 63 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++ libempathy-gtk/empathy-account-widget.c | 12 ++++- src/empathy-account-assistant.c | 3 +- 5 files changed, 118 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
Review of attachment 168803 [details] [review]: looks good!
This problem has been fixed in the development version. The fix will be available in the next major software release. Thank you for your bug report.
Very nice, works great! Thanks!!!!! (Ubuntu Maverick)