[Bug 610131] Re: Facebook contacts cannot be added to groups

[Omer Akram]

the normal grouping that empathy does for other networks is not done
locally. it happens on the protocol servers(?) as facebook doesnt allow
that.

On Sun, Aug 1, 2010 at 10:13 PM, Sean Fenton
<610131 at bugs.launchpad.net>wrote:

> >
> > I looked upstream but didn't see a bug report referencing what you're
> >> talking about: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/browse.cgi?product=empathy
> >>
> >> Why does it matter what Facebook wants to do? I just want to organize my
> >> contacts in Empathy.
> >>
> >>
> > I talked to the upstream developers of empathy and they say the XMPP
> > protocol that facebook allows doesnot allow for contacts to be grouped.
> > generally facebook have a real bad XMPP support.
> >
>
> Yes, I understand, but how about we enable creation of local groups so
> users
> can organize their Facebook contacts regardless of what Facebook wants to
> do? Do we really just have to throw our hands up in the air, because of
> Facebook?
>
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> Facebook contacts cannot be added to groups
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/610131
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> Status in “empathy” package in Ubuntu: Won't Fix
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> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: empathy
>
> When I attempt to create a group & add Facebook contacts to it nothing
> happens. The group can be named anything & I've tested this with multiple
> Facebook contacts. Closing & reopening Empathy causes the new group(s) to
> disappear, as well (which may be normal behavior for empty groups).
>
> ProblemType: Bug
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
> Package: empathy 2.30.2-0ubuntu1
> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-23.37-generic 2.6.32.15+drm33.5
> Uname: Linux 2.6.32-23-generic x86_64
> Architecture: amd64
> Date: Mon Jul 26 10:53:31 2010
> EcryptfsInUse: Yes
> InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100429)
> ProcEnviron:
>  LANG=en_US.utf8
>  SHELL=/bin/bash
> SourcePackage: empathy
>
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Facebook contacts cannot be added to groups
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