KDE Telepathy bug hunt weekend in progress - wanna join?

Our next release is scheduled in less than a month and because we want this release to really rock (and be stable as rock too), we're giving this whole weekend to fixing bugs. So far I've managed to fix all reported crashes in contact list and fix few other bugs and mem leaks. The Text UI component is getting some nice fixes as well. And I'm going to fix some annoyances in our kded-module, which will improve the integration of Telepathy in KDE Plasma Workspace.

We can still use some hands as our bug list is rather long and the day has only so many hours. If you'd like to help test or even fix bugs, head down to #kde-telepathy on freenode right now and we'll get you started. We have bugs ranging through the whole difficulty scale, so even if you are a beginner coder, we have tasks for you. Great opportunity to join the KDE development ;)

Also if you are using KDE Telepathy and you have some annoyances that you would like to see fixed, come tell us now in our irc channel and we'll give these bugs a special priority ;)

We're on untill Sunday night, so don't worry if you can't make it today :)

See you there!

Comments

[Luca Manganelli]

Three bugs:

- in notification window, the "Reply" button (to a incoming message) is not working;
- file transfers: only the outgoing file works fine, the incoming file is always ignored and lost; it's impossible to set the save folder anywhere.

[Teho Openid]

One thing that I think KDE Telepathy seriously needs is it's own forums under forums.kde.org.

Out of curiosity is there still plans to rename the application suite? Things like KDE IM Log Viewer or KDE IM Contacts do not look professional. The software itself is truly awesome though :p

[Marty]

@Luca - the "Reply" button is unfortunately not really our fault, it has been reported to Plasma devs quite some time ago, but we still have no fix and we can't do much about it :/
As for file transfers - that thing is tricky. But we'll try to do some debug in that area.

@Teho - The forum section could be done quite easily, but the number of KTp related posts is not that high to require its own category. But we'll consider it, thanks for the tip.

As for the naming - no, we won't do any more changes. We had /lots/ of discussions about that and we just settled on KDE Telepathy as a project name and KDE IM * for apps name, mostly simply because we want to be part of the KDE Workspace itself, therefore KDE IM is all we really need :)

[mark-wege]

There could be worse problems, but I also believe the current naming is not really good. First putting KDE in front of it, seems even worse than having a K in every name. IM as abbreviation doesnt't really sound good. If you want to have it as part of the KDE Workspace, then the name must be self explaining. IM is not really self explaining for everyone (non geeks), especially if you take translation into consideration. I would suggest to name it "Messaging" for the apps name, Messaging Contacts and Messaging Logs or to stick. Or alternatively Telepathy, Telepathy Contacts and Telepathy Logs which also is not so self explaining.

[Mitch Golden]

I seem to have seen this post too late, but I wanted to point out that I have been having some discussions about these issues on the KDE forum.

http://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=101958&p=222156

My issues were:

0) When I log in, I am not seeing telepathy connect.

1) I see no way to change the nickname of a contact (am I missing something?)
2) For AIM at least, it always reports that the contact cannot see when you are online, even if he can.
3) No way to separately set the status of different IM accounts (other than disabling).
4) The Instant Messenging Presence plasmoid only works on the desktop, not the taskbar.

I was assured that 0 and 4 are being corrected, but not the others. Seems to me that since Kopete did all of these, kde-telepathy should as well.

Number 1 especially is important to fix before things would feel really complete to me.

[Luca Manganelli]

incoming file transfers don't work for me because of notifications.

When an user sends me a file, a notification window appears "Do you want to accept file" with two buttons Accept and Deny...

as you said "Reply" button doesn't work.

How can I manage this problem? I want to accept file always!

[Marty]

@Mitch - Yes and I responded to all of them there, no need to copy&paste them here ;) Also, for bugs, please /always/ use http://bugs.kde.org where we can track your issues and respond to them, this comments section is not really the place for it.

@Luca - Sorry about the button, but good news is - I've worked around the "Reply" button, now it works correctly, though the solution is a bit nasty. Once again it's not really our fault, but we'll try to fix all the buttons and we'll see how (and if) it will work :)

[Traista Eugen]

It would be nice to have file transfer support for yahoo!.

[Marty]

@Traista - unfortunately that's something we can do nothing about. We can only nudge the upstream developers if anything. The proper place to report this is at https://bugs.freedesktop.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=Telepathy -- component haze ;)

[Traista Eugen]

Ok. Thank you for answering .I'll try that.

[Mitch Golden]

Sorry about the duplication. Wasn't sure if you were the same person I was corresponding with!

[María Pérez]

A pair of things, well, three:

Dragging files to the conversation window does nothing. The expected behavior I think should be the file being transferred.

When I connect, I get connected in ALL my accounts. Most of the time I don't want that, I just want to connect to my principal account, and leave the secondary ones disconnected or sometimes in invisible state. In Kopete was very easy this managent of connections.

Could you add some button to access the mailboxes associated to each IM account? I think is a basic feature every messaging software should include.

Thanks for your work, KTP works wonderfully on My system despite some lacks