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Bug 628553 - Make it possible to import meta-contacts from Pidgin, etc
Make it possible to import meta-contacts from Pidgin, etc
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 628868
Product: empathy
Classification: Core
Component: Meta Contacts
2.31.x
Other Linux
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: empathy-maint
Depends on: 628868
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2010-09-01 21:10 UTC by Olivier Crête
Modified: 2010-09-14 09:43 UTC
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Description Olivier Crête 2010-09-01 21:10:18 UTC 
For many people (myself included), meta-contacts were the deal breaker against using Empathy. Now that it has been implementated, it would be nice if I could import my lovingly hand-crafted metacontacts from pidgin into Empathy.
Comment 1 Guillaume Desmottes 2010-09-02 09:00:21 UTC 
Yeah that would be cool.
Comment 2 Philip Withnall 2010-09-06 10:56:50 UTC 
There's a patch for libfolks to add a read-only Pidgin backend in bug #628868. This solves half of the problem; the other half is figuring out a decent way to copy the data between backends so that it can be truly imported.
Comment 3 Philip Withnall 2010-09-14 09:43:18 UTC 
With the plan in bug #628868, no work should be necessary in Empathy to allow use of Pidgin's meta-contacts, since the Pidgin backend would be active all the time, and meta-contacts could be removed by adding anti-links. This means the meta-contacts wouldn't be _imported_; they'd just be loaded from blist.xml.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 628868 ***