Hello,
as of today emesene-git (today's master) will automatically choose between gtk2 and gtk3 upon launch.
That
means that if you have a decent version of gtk3 installed along with
the new python bindings, you'll get emesene running with gtk3 (and
gstreamer1.0, if you have it).
NOTE
TO UBUNTU PRECISE USERS: There's a known bug that prevents gtk3 from
working in Ubuntu Precise. However, if you're using the emesene-stable
PPA, an update to the light-themes package will fix that issue and
you'll be able to run it (from git, PPA still has the good ol' emesene
2.12.9).
This
is the result of months of development of Jose 'pepeleproso' Rostagno
so big kudos to him for getting this important milestone in emesene
development.
We are aware of the recent developments of the Skype-Messenger situation but no worries, emesene fans!
emesene already support XMPP through SleekXMPP (and that means out of
the box support for Facebook Chat and GTalk) and QQ through libwebqq.
The emesene roadmap nowadays is something like this (no particular order):
- Complete the port to Gtk3 and remove Gtk2 support.
- Switch to python3.x
- Add support for OAuth so it can be easily used for Messenger-over-XMPP
- Better XMPP support (new networks, new functionalities)
- Improve Qt4 gui and bring it on par with Gtk
- Fix the Ubuntu bugs that are preventing emesene from running in Quantal (unknown causes)
Ofcourse we are open to every kind of contribution, so if you like python and hacking you know where to look at!
That's all for now.
Greetings,
8 comments:
hail, emesene!!
Microsoft will retire Messenger in all countries worldwide in the first quarter of 2013 (with the exception of mainland China where Messenger will continue to be available). I think, that makes emesene and all the other clones obsolete?? As far as i know goes the Servers also down.
How do you know that Erogahn Mansel?
Can you send me a link of the information about that?
EA de Zeeuw... Öhm, google ist your friend. There tons of results about that. And MS confirmed this past days ago.
Here the oficial Blog-Post.
http://blogs.skype.com/en/2012/11/skypewlm.html
A era is coming to an end. Good times I had with this piece of software. Love affairs, friendships...
For all the good times.
Always shining in my heart, MSN.
emesene is dead, hey make a skype messenger alternnative for Ubuntu, the version 4.1.x is a shit, bad windows conversation !!
So emesene is or isn't going to lose Messenger functionality when Microsoft cuts off support next month?
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