I talked to the upstream developers of empathy and they say the XMPP protocol that facebook allows doesnot allow for contacts to be grouped. generally facebook have a real bad XMPP support.
On Sun, Aug 1, 2010 at 9:41 PM, Sean Fenton <610...@bugs.launchpad.net>wrote: > Thanks, Omer, for replying. So how do we find a solution? > > > > restriction from facebook itself. its XMPP implementation does not allow > > > empathy to make contact groups. > > > > I looked upstream but didn't see a bug report referencing what you're > talking about: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/browse.cgi?product=empathy > > Why does it matter what Facebook wants to do? I just want to organize my > contacts in Empathy. > > -- > Facebook contacts cannot be added to groups > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/610131 > You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to empathy > in ubuntu. > > Status in “empathy” package in Ubuntu: Won't Fix > > Bug description: > Binary package hint: empathy > > When I attempt to create a group & add Facebook contacts to it nothing > happens. The group can be named anything & I've tested this with multiple > Facebook contacts. Closing & reopening Empathy causes the new group(s) to > disappear, as well (which may be normal behavior for empty groups). > > ProblemType: Bug > DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04 > Package: empathy 2.30.2-0ubuntu1 > ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-23.37-generic 2.6.32.15+drm33.5 > Uname: Linux 2.6.32-23-generic x86_64 > Architecture: amd64 > Date: Mon Jul 26 10:53:31 2010 > EcryptfsInUse: Yes > InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100429) > ProcEnviron: > LANG=en_US.utf8 > SHELL=/bin/bash > SourcePackage: empathy > > > > > -- Facebook contacts cannot be added to groups https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/610131 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
