I agree that patching is never the better way in the long run. But as the contact list was completely re-skinned, I don’t think that simply reverting this commit will help. There must have been discussion on this topic and the removal of this feature was obviously not accidental. I would be happy to know where we could get information on future developments or current discussions. Besides, it should also be noted that 12.10 Ubuntu has a quite old version (3.6.3) of empathy and that Gnome current version is around 3.8.1 and the last version is not so straightforward to install on 12.10 Ubuntu, and having used and tested this last version might be a natural prerequisite to any complaints.
In the meantime, this patch brought my empathy back up to my expectation.
M. Rubio-Roy
Either I’m doing something wrong or this doesn’t work on Ubuntu 14.04 with empathy 3.8.6
http://www.kalysto.org vaab
I’ve just copy-pasted all the instruction and it worked for me (on 14.04 with empathy 3.8.6). Are you sure that you’ve applied exactly all the instruction ?
Valentino
It work’s perfectly on ubuntu 14.04. It’s the first time in my life that I’ve modified a source code for my own use. I don’t understand the changes on empathy and I particulary hate the big size on contact list.
Now I can still use empathy on my way.
Thank you, thank you very much!
https://painless.software Bittner
Absolutely fantastic! Works like a charm on my Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS box. Makes Empathy a lot less clunky.
I’ve suggested your solution on (ask)ubuntu [1], because it’s actually working, and you do a good job in encouraging people to compile source code. Awesome!
Nice! Any chance you can release these fixed debs for 15.10? Or better, set up a PPA so that people can automatically get the newest version when you release it?
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