Version: unspecified (using Devel) OS: Linux adding windows live messenger accounts to telepathy-kde does not work. After the username and password are filled, a pink box appears saying "Failed to create account. Possibly not all required fields are valid." Tried with @live.com and @hotmail.com usernames, always got the same result. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: - open "instant messaging and VOIP" section in systemsettings; - select add account and "Windows Live Messenger"; - try to add an account. Actual Results: a pink box appears saying "Failed to create account. Possibly not all required fields are valid." Expected Results: The account gets created using kde 4.8 beta 1 (4.7.80)
i'm using telepathy 0.2 on archlinux
Could you see if you have a package called telepathy-haze installed? If no, install it.
that was it, sorry for the useless report
Why was the windows live messenger account displayed, anyway? We should be displaying only the accounts that can be created, if not that's another bug...
It is a valid bug, though the title needs updating - he had butterfly installed. So it appears in the list. We have a plugin for butterfly so it has a nice UI. However butterfly is a pile of rubbish so uses the old password API and our stuff explodes. Our code prefers haze->MSN over butterfly->MSN but it was designed to fall back. We need to either: 1) Make it so we never show butterfly even if a plugin is available. 2) When dealing with something with a mandatory password field send it to MC (which has the problems of opening gnome-keyring) 3) Fix butterfly (I can't see this happening) 4) Replace the butterfly UI plugin with a giant flashing marquee that says "go away". Ideally we want to avoid hardcoding hacks, as there is also msn-pecan (a lib purple extension, which works perfectly with haze) which is yet another MSN protocol to handle. Plus we have the possibility of XMPP-MSN through gabble...