Bug 5139

Summary:	Provide multi-user chat (chatroom / IRC) support again
Product:	[Maemo Official Applications] Chat & Call & SMS	Reporter:	Lucas Maneos <maemo>
Component:	Messaging	Assignee:	rtcomm <rtcomm>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:	im-chat-bugs
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	Medium	CC:	andre_klapper, denis, emanuele.cassioli, guillaume.desmottes, jesper, konstantin.starodubtsev, maemo, maemo, mcepl, mikhail.zabaluev, mpredotka, olivier.crete, quim.gil, redeeman, yoush
Version:	5.0/(3.2010.02-8)
Target Milestone:	5.0/(20.2010.36-2)
Hardware:	All
OS:	Maemo
URL:	http://bugs.meego.com/show_bug.cgi?id=8281
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	788, 3334, 4636, 4900, 4904, 4905, 4908, 4910, 7454

Description Lucas Maneos (reporter) 2009-09-14 15:20:54 UTC

SOFTWARE VERSION:
Unspecified Fremantle version (relevant bits not available in SDK, sorry),
based on bug 788 comment 3:

> To begin with, in Fremantle IM chat rooms are not supported.

This is a significant regression compared to previous versions, where
multi-user XMPP chat worked fine for years.  Please consider re-adding support
for multi-user chat.  This should be only a UI issue, as the underlying stack
(telepathy, loudmouth etc) does support the functionality.

Comment 1 Mikhail Zabaluev nokia

2009-09-14 16:35:33 UTC

Giving a priority boost.

Comment 2 Andre Klapper maemo.org

2009-09-16 15:36:44 UTC

(Also feel encouraged to vote for this ticket in order to push it.)

Comment 3 Andre Klapper maemo.org

2009-09-19 17:22:53 UTC

Adding dependencies to all open multi-user chat bugs.

Comment 4 Lucas Maneos (reporter) 2009-09-19 22:36:27 UTC

Adding bug 788 to the list, since it seens to have been closed only because of
this dependency.

Comment 5 Andre Klapper maemo.org

2009-09-29 17:24:12 UTC

Telepathy Backend & Accounts UI support providing IRC, MSN, link-local XMPP and
access to using Pidgin's libpurple providing lots of other options is available
for Fremantle, see
http://repository.maemo.org/extras-devel/pool/fremantle/free/t/telepathy-*
directories.

What else is exactly missing?

I've installed the IRC one and now I just wonder how to enter a chat room. :-/

Comment 6 Olivier Crête 2009-09-29 17:57:24 UTC

The UI is missing...

Comment 7 Quim Gil nokia

2009-12-07 09:42:00 UTC

What is the situation of this one?

Comment 8 Quim Gil nokia

2009-12-07 09:43:17 UTC

The scope of bugs.maemo.org are bugs and only very specific and no-brainer
enhancement requests. This report contains a feature request that is too
generic for bugs.maemo.org. Please post this problem and propose your
solution in Maemo Brainstorm instead:
  http://maemo.org/community/brainstorm/

More information: http://wiki.maemo.org/Maemo_brainstorm

Comment 9 Marcin Juszkiewicz 2009-12-07 10:55:47 UTC

(In reply to comment #8)
> The scope of bugs.maemo.org are bugs and only very specific and no-brainer
> enhancement requests. This report contains a feature request that is too
> generic for bugs.maemo.org.

This report is not feature request but regression report. Maemo4 had chatrooms
support and I used it a lot. For me it is a bug that Maemo5 do not have that
functionality.

Comment 10 Andre Klapper maemo.org

2009-12-08 18:53:38 UTC

*** Bug 6711 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 11 Quim Gil nokia

2009-12-09 08:48:13 UTC

Alright, let me reopen this based on the 22 votes already here and the many
bugs blocked by this one.

I have asked to the RTCom team.

Comment 12 Quim Gil nokia

2009-12-15 07:49:47 UTC

Expected to be available at some point in Fremantle.

Comment 13 EC 2009-12-21 18:30:54 UTC

Good, i've just added my vote. In my opinion, this is a bug and not just a
simple request

Comment 14 Andre Klapper maemo.org

2009-12-21 18:39:05 UTC

(Please avoid unneeded "me too" comments as they trigger mail to everybody
subscribed here. Just vote. Thanks.)

Comment 15 Nikita Youshchenko 2010-02-03 11:25:01 UTC

pymucl, available from extras-devel, may be an alternative for now... although
it is currently very young and buggy.

Comment 16 Andre Klapper maemo.org

2010-03-11 13:30:54 UTC

(In reply to comment #12)
> Expected to be available at some point in Fremantle.

Comment 17 Ralph Meijer 2010-09-30 14:56:05 UTC

Since PR1.2 there is a "Join chat room" menu item in Conversations, allowing
one to join a room by typing the room name and selecting the account to connect
with. This works for joining XMPP MUCs and IRC rooms, as spartan as it is. All
of the tickets blocking on this one have been closed. Is anything still missing
for this ticket to remain open?

Comment 18 Konstantin Starodubtsev 2010-09-30 15:02:01 UTC

It is possible to join MUC now. But it is expected from client that it will
request from server last N messages from MUC history. Most of xmpp clients do
it, while telepathy on N900 doesn't. 
This is important feature as mobile clients lose connection more often than PC
client.

Comment 19 Mikhail Zabaluev nokia

2010-10-11 20:52:32 UTC

(In reply to comment #18)
> It is possible to join MUC now. But it is expected from client that it will
> request from server last N messages from MUC history. Most of xmpp clients do
> it, while telepathy on N900 doesn't.

Added this as a MeeGo feature request:
http://bugs.meego.com/show_bug.cgi?id=8281

This bug is considered fixed, as basic support for MUC has been delivered.
Please file further enhancement requests for Harmattan and MeeGo.

Comment 20 Andre Klapper maemo.org

2010-10-25 17:12:58 UTC

The problem reported here should be fixed in the update that was released today
for public: The Maemo5 update version 20.2010.36-2 (also called "PR1.3"
sometimes). Please leave a comment if the problem is not fixed for you in this
update version.