Bug 325327

Summary: File transfer on Yahoo do not work
Product: [Unmaintained] telepathy Reporter: Ovidiu-Florin BOGDAN <kde.kfoar>
Component: filetransferAssignee: Telepathy Bugs <kde-telepathy-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED INTENTIONAL    
Severity: normal CC: kde.kfoar, kde, mklapetek
Priority: NOR    
Version: 0.6.3   
Target Milestone: Future   
Platform: Arch Linux   
OS: Linux   
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Description Ovidiu-Florin BOGDAN 2013-09-26 12:28:38 UTC
File transfer on the Yahoo messenger protocol do not work, either way.
Cannot receive files, cannot send files.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
A. 1. open a conversation with a contact on the Yahoo messenger protocol
    2. the "Send file" button is greyed out
B. 1. ask someone running yahoo messenger on windows to send you a file
    2. there is no notification that the file is coming. The windows user waits for file transfer acceptance.
    3. when the windows user cancels the file transfer I get a notification that the file transfer has been canceled.
Actual Results:  
No file transfer works on yahoo.

Expected Results:  
File transfer to work.

AFAIK telepathy uses libpurple (pidgin library). On pidgin you can receive files on the yahoo messenger protocol.
Comment 1 Martin Klapetek 2013-09-27 08:45:54 UTC
Thanks for the report.

It's not as simple as "purple sends files, Telepathy must too". There's a layer on top of purple, called Telepathy Haze (a "connection manager"), which sits between our client and purple. Simply speaking, if this layer does not implement filetransfers or implements it wrongly, it does not work.

It may of course be bugs in our code on top of all that, but I'd suggest to file bugs in sending files with purple backend upstream at http://bugs.freedesktop.org - product telepathy - component haze.
Comment 2 David Edmundson 2013-11-04 21:51:48 UTC
We can't really fix this, please see Martin's comment.
Comment 3 Ovidiu-Florin BOGDAN 2013-11-04 22:05:29 UTC
I've reported it. Here it is: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=70456

Still no response.
Comment 4 Martin Klapetek 2013-11-05 08:38:03 UTC
Haze is not exactly too active project, so it may take some time (where "some time" may also mean "forever"). Sorry.