OK I should probably have done what was advised here, but I knew better

I found the package "Pidgin Bonjour Support - Pidgin and Telepathy Bonjour Support" in Extras today and thought that, well, I could simply install it and get Bonjour/Avahi-support for the built in IM client ("and Telepathy"!).

No. Didn't work. I didn't even see my N800 in my Avahi Browser on my desktop. I also didn't have any new options in the account setting that would let me set up a Bounjour/Avahi-Account.

I could start /etc/init.d/avahi-daemon manually and see the N800 as a device, but not offering any services.

Step 2: I installed Pidgin. Pidgin now allows me to set up what they call a "Bonjour-account". Once I do this, the corresponding service shows up in the Avahi Browser and the account I set up on Pidgin/N800 pops up in Pidgin on my desktop - if and only if I started etc/init.d/avahi-daemon manually before. (OK, I could add this myself, but I don't want to right now because... see below)

Still, from Pidgin on my N800, I cannot see the the Bonjour Account that I have on my desktop. Trying to initiate a chat from the desktop (where I see my N800) fails.


Can any of you guys who know what Avahi really is and how it works give me a hint where to start looking for errors? The most important one is this one-way-mirror effect: I can see my N800 from Pidgin on my desktop but not the other way round. First step would be to have it work in Pidgin reliably, both ways.

Then I'd love to have it work with the built-in IM client... I only use SIP and XMPP-based services normally, so I don't want to run a multi-protocol client that only duplicates this functionality. Maybe I got carried away by the package description saying "...and Telepathy Bonjour Support" and there's still something else to be installed, but it would be cool if it could be done with as little additional hackery as possible... I don't want the next SSU to fail because of this, you know.