I've tried to use Modest. I really have. But Claws works so much better for my use-case. And, it's a shame that this bug is the only major issue that's blocking me from using it full-time.

Tim

I'm not a developer either but the API is there to have your own contacts integrated isn't it.

http://maemo.org/maemo_release_docum...00000000000000

And in Fremantle:
http://maemo.org/api_refs/5.0/beta/libosso-abook/

There is even a functionality for merging contacts:
http://maemo.org/api_refs/5.0/beta/l...ook-merge.html

For the Claws people, this:

http://maemo.org/maemo_release_docum...00000000000000

...seems to be the hangup for some reason. I don't know why. And, I don't know if it's an issue for other devs.

Tim

I can see why (as an independent project targetting many platforms other than Maemo) introducing dependencies on evolution and osso libs would not seem desirable. It does have a plugin architecture though so I wonder whether the integration could happen with a third-party add-on.

Same here, but Modest keeps dangling the promise of full LEMONADE support (never mind that the final Diablo release shipped with IDLE disabled) which is kinda hard to ignore :-(

Well, after about a day of hacking at telepathy-haze on my tablet, I succeeded in getting the Facebook plugin to work. I did no programming whatsoever and it works with a few small bugs. You can find my thread about my progress here: http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php...ewpost&t=30843

Looks like I might be more helpful here than I thought. I've gotten in touch with the RTCOMM guys including Will, the telepathy-haze developer and they will help me finish it off when they have some time to do so. I'm pretty sure that whatever we work out to make Facebook work 100% properly can only help adding it and anything else to both Fremantle and Diablo.

fwiw the Telepathy maintainers are digging also in the Fremantle code to make it work with Telepathy-*. Good that you are in sync with them.

In the meantime, I'm setting up development environments for both Maemo 4 and 5 and I'm going to try out several more protocol plugins for Pidgin and see how many of them will work out on Diablo and can at least be tested in Fremantle. Twitter, I'm looking at you.

Now THAT is excellent news!

I'm so glad the upstream project devs are doing the work here... Having used Empathy on the tablet, it really seems to me that they aren't far away from getting things integrated...

I know the Collabora guys will be releasing a sort of RTCOMM for Fremantle in the future.

Sweet. I hope it isn't too long after the Fremantle devices appear... Whenever that might be.