Bug 1380026

Summary: Empathy no longer integrates with Settings -> Online Accounts
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Mikhail <mikhail.v.gavrilov>
Component: empathyAssignee: Brian Pepple <bdpepple>
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 25CC: bdpepple, debarshir, fmuro, uraeus, yajo.sk8
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No chat support for Google anymore? none

Description Mikhail 2016-09-28 13:41:24 UTC 
Description of problem:
Empathy cannot connect to Google Talk since Fedora 24

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
empathy-3.12.12-2.fc25.x86_64

Steps to Reproduce:
1. install Fedora 25
2. login into Google online account
3. dnf install empathy
4. open Empathy

Actual results:
See error message

Expected results:
See contact list in Empathy
Comment 1 Yajo 2016-10-25 08:29:46 UTC 
I'm affected too.

Duplicate of bug 1350678?
Comment 2 Yajo 2016-12-23 08:10:16 UTC 
Created attachment 1234956 [details]
No chat support for Google anymore?

I have noticed that gnome-control-center does not have a "chat" option for Google accounts anymore. Is it possible that Empathy is trying to connect to an unsupported service using those credentials and Google blocks it accordingly?
Comment 3 Fernando 2017-02-23 12:15:53 UTC 
You can configure Google Talk within Empathy. You can't use your Google account password, though, you must use a Google App Password:

https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/185833?hl=en

These are Google policies. I guess that's the reason why configuring online accounts is not enough anymore.
Comment 4 Debarshi Ray 2017-03-14 12:25:51 UTC 
(In reply to Fernando from comment #3)
> You can configure Google Talk within Empathy. You can't use your Google
> account password, though, you must use a Google App Password:
> 
> https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/185833?hl=en
> 
> These are Google policies. I guess that's the reason why configuring online
> accounts is not enough anymore.

Yes, this is intentional. Since Fedora 24 we disabled the Telepathy integration in Settings -> Online Accounts, and empathy is no longer shipped by default. See:
https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2016-01-06/workstation.2016-01-06-15.00.html

These days the empathy / telepathy stack of software components ranges from unmaintained to very weakly maintained. That's why we want to gradually withdraw it from Fedora Workstation.
Comment 5 Mikhail 2017-03-14 12:43:05 UTC 
Very bad, I wanted to have a well-integrated IM client in the system. Running the IM client in the browser is not as effective especially if you want to be online at the same time in whatsapp, google talk, skype, Viber, Telegram, ICQ, etc.