Adium

Ticket #9607 (closed defect: fixed)

Opened 5 months ago

Last modified 4 months ago

Add Facebook Chat

Reported by: lajz9 Assigned to: nobody
Priority: normal Milestone: Adium X 1.3
Component: Other Protocol Version: 1.2.4
Severity: normal Keywords:
Cc: Patch: None
Pending: 0

Description

Facebook has come out with a new IM feature debuting this week. Will this also be added to Adium?

Change History

04/09/2008 08:39:38 PM changed by Catfish_Man

See http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=11586172524

If facebook decides to support xmpp, we'll happily (and easily!) add an account type in Adium. Otherwise it'll be a long slog of reverse engineering that may or may not happen.

04/09/2008 11:32:37 PM changed by jas8522

  • milestone set to Good idea for "later".

Will file it in here until we know if it will be xmpp-based or not.

04/23/2008 05:24:13 PM changed by boredzo

  • component changed from Adium Core to Other Protocol.

04/28/2008 10:57:23 AM changed by xmpp-nerd

I really hope, that the libpurple team not even thinks about wasting a development second on this one, if the zuckerbergers decided to go the propitiary path. if they went xmpp it would be a really nice additional feature for this social networking platform

05/02/2008 03:10:07 PM changed by jmping

Not that it is likely to matter, but it appears that Digsby has already implemented this feature: http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/05/01/digsby-adds-support-for-facebook-chat/ Perhaps their work can be copied?

05/02/2008 03:11:48 PM changed by zacw

Digsby is not open source.

05/04/2008 09:56:45 PM changed by ThreeDee912

Not sure where this SF project is heading... http://sourceforge.net/projects/pidginfbchat/

05/07/2008 08:09:30 PM changed by d235j

Actually, the reverse-engineering has already been done. There even exists a Facebook Chat client written totally in Ruby: http://coderrr.wordpress.com/2008/05/06/facebook-chat-api/ (note: the ruby version may not work if you don't have the needed gems, and you might have to add require 'RubyGems' as the first line of the code, but that's not important here) Hopefully someone will pick this up and add the needed support to libpurple.

05/09/2008 12:02:30 AM changed by evands

  • status changed from new to closed.
  • resolution set to fixed.
  • milestone changed from Good idea for "later" to Adium X 1.3.

Fixed in [23362]. Thanks for the Ruby link, d235j - that was quite helpful :)

05/14/2008 06:44:10 AM changed by xmpp-nerd

facebook just anounced, that they'll add a xmpp service. so probably it's best to pull this facebook specific protocol from adium again (unbloating) :-)

http://developers.facebook.com/news.php?blog=1&story=110