New meta-contacts in Empathy

Alejandro (a.k.a KZKG^Gaara)

1 minute

 Meta-contacts are a new feature that will be incorporated in future versions of Empathy, Ubuntu's default chat client. To the extent that Empathy allows us to add accounts and, therefore, contacts from different services (Gmail, Facebook, AIM, ICQ, IRC, MSN and a long etcetera) it is logical group the contacts that belong to the same person in a «meta-contact» (For example, we have Juan added on Facebook, ICQ, MSN, etc.). 

Installation

This functionality is already available in Empathy 2.31. You can install it using the source code or following the PPA from Telepathy developers.

Note: version 2.31 is still considered unstable. It is not recommended to install it on your work computer.

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  1.   Seba said
    ago 11 years

    I use metacontacts, but every time I talk to that person, what I say comes out in all the programs and they bitch me. Can it be fixed in any way?

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  2.   Julian arming said
    ago 11 years

    Quite interesting, it really is something that all messenger clients lack 🙂

    Reply to Julianarmando
  3.   fourier21 said
    ago 11 years

    no, no, no… not all…. pidgin incorporates it (something similar) for quite some time ...: p

    Reply to Fourier21