Bug 347317

Summary:	Add support for Whatsapp plugin using Whatsapp-purple
Product:	[Unmaintained] telepathy	Reporter:	Agron <as9902613>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Telepathy Bugs <kde-telepathy-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	a.lembke, fincer89, sombragris, wincak, zhx
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	Future
Platform:	Other
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
Sentry Crash Report:

Description Agron 2015-05-06 15:08:02 UTC

KDE-Telepathy has a great infrastructure to support many communications plugins.

Since Whatsapp already has a pidgin plugin, it should be possible to use the same plugin in KDE-Telepathy.

Here's the source of Whatsapp-purple.
https://github.com/davidgfnet/whatsapp-purple


Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 sombragris 2015-10-14 16:29:48 UTC

Seconded. Please do this. Thank you!

Comment 2 Lemmiwinks 2016-05-05 06:37:40 UTC

I would really like to see all purple plugins work in telepathy. (skypeweb, facebook, hangouts, wahtsapp...)

Comment 3 CnZhx 2016-11-11 12:01:32 UTC

This seems a very good wish. But it looks like this component has been in active development for a while now. Just mark my wish here.

Comment 4 wincak 2017-10-27 15:34:23 UTC

Looks like whatsapp-purple is no longer being developed.

However it seems that you can use telepathy-haze with purple plugins to some extent. I just found a way to enable facebook chat integration through purple-facebook.

See:
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=208214

"Installed: 
purple-facebook-git (AUR)
telepathy-haze

I've created two files:
/usr/share/accounts/services/kde/ktp-haze-facebook-im.service

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<service id="ktp-haze-facebook-im">
  <type>IM</type>
  
  <name>Chat</name>
  <icon>im-facebook</icon>
  <provider>ktp-haze-facebook</provider>
  <translations>kaccounts-providers</translations>

  <template>
      <group name="telepathy">
          <setting name="manager">haze</setting>
          <setting name="protocol">facebook</setting>
      </group>
      <group name="auth">
          <setting name="method">password</setting>
          <setting name="mechanism">password</setting>
      </group>
  </template>
</service>

and
/usr/share/accounts/providers/kde/ktp-haze-facebook.provider

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<provider id="ktp-haze-facebook">
    <name>Facebook</name>
    <icon>im-facebook</icon>
    
    <description>Chat account in Facebook</description>
    <translations>kaccounts-providers</translations>
    <plugin>ktpaccountskcm_plugin_kaccounts</plugin>
</provider>

That is it. After that you can add facebook to in Online Accounts.
The only problem is that group chats do not work."

Could this be automated somehow so you don't have to search for this solution and do it manually?
Getting the other plugins to work would also be really nice.

Comment 5 Christoph Cullmann 2024-09-18 18:14:28 UTC

Dear user, unfortunately Telepathy is no longer maintained.

Please migrate to another solution, e.g. for Jabber a possibility is Kaidan, for Matrix a candidate is NeoChat.