[Announce] purple-protocol-telegram: Telegram Messenger plugin for Pidgin
 

[UPDATE] 1.2.6-1 (plugin crashing fixed) is already available on extras-devel. Enjoy. maacruz

https://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?...0&postcount=38 After some tiny tweaking I have successfully build the telegram-purple https://github.com/majn/telegram-purple for Nokia N900.

You can install the package from extras-devel repository using Application Manager or:

http://i.imgur.com/4DNmZhJ.png

Works for me (it even displays incoming photos). May (or may not) crash a lot. Try it.

Re: [Announce] purple-protocol-telegram: Telegram Messenger plugin for Pidgin
 

Oops mainstream apps !
nice job done though i dont use it :;

Re: [Announce] purple-protocol-telegram: Telegram Messenger plugin for Pidgin
 

Jeeeej !!!

Re: [Announce] purple-protocol-telegram: Telegram Messenger plugin for Pidgin
 

Hey this is cool. It works just fine.
BTW somebody tried to send me a sticker and a stickers bot appeared in the contact list...why?

Re: [Announce] purple-protocol-telegram: Telegram Messenger plugin for Pidgin
 

What about emojis? We can unpack these on ~/.purple/smileys or it will waste rootfs space?

Re: [Announce] purple-protocol-telegram: Telegram Messenger plugin for Pidgin
 

Is it possible to use it through telepathy-haze in Maemo Conversations or should I have Pidgin installed?

Re: [Announce] purple-protocol-telegram: Telegram Messenger plugin for Pidgin
 

Seems that it has to be like this. It's a plugin not a standalone app.

They should work just fine. I'll make a deb later maybe. For now, put them in /opt and symlink to ~/.purple/smileys.

You should ask telepathy-haze maintainers. I have tried but it asks for password and there is no password authentication in Telegram.

Re: [Announce] purple-protocol-telegram: Telegram Messenger plugin for Pidgin
 

humm it be uber cool to have it in conversation app :;

Re: [Announce] purple-protocol-telegram: Telegram Messenger plugin for Pidgin
 

I understand that in the SMS verification process a popup should appear, asking for the verification code in order to use Telegram. However, I am not seeing any pop-up window and I have no idea what is causing this. I also wonder if any other users experience this problem. My N900 can otherwise receive SMS normally and all carrier setting check out ok.

Using Pidgin 2.10.11 running on SSU enabled Maemo 5 v21.2011.38 purple-protocol-telegram version 0.7-1

Thanks in advance.

Re: [Announce] purple-protocol-telegram: Telegram Messenger plugin for Pidgin
 

Huh. Seems like it's broken. I'll try to build latest Git version and I'll let you know if it's working.

Re: [Announce] purple-protocol-telegram: Telegram Messenger plugin for Pidgin
 

[FIXED in 0.7-2] The problem was: https://github.com/vysheng/tg/issues/440. You can upgrade to 0.7-2 as soon as it gets imported from the autobuilder.

Re: [Announce] purple-protocol-telegram: Telegram Messenger plugin for Pidgin
 

works perfectly now. thanks for this!

Re: [Announce] purple-protocol-telegram: Telegram Messenger plugin for Pidgin
 

I tried it today and sadly it didn't work as it doesn't trigger the authentification code. So could you update it to the newest version?
I tried to compile it myself on the N900, but it failed to load with symbol _bswap32 not available.

Re: [Announce] purple-protocol-telegram: Telegram Messenger plugin for Pidgin
 

Seems to work fine, many thanks!

Still have a question, is there a automaic phonebook-synchronization at every startup? If so, how does it handle phonenumbers not saved in international format? Do I need to change them?
Can I manually start a synchronization, too?

Edit: Why does Pidgin have no Tray symbol?! Of course 'show Trayicon' is always - but there is no symbol? What is going on there? Any ideas? I can't leave the window open all the time...

Re: [Announce] purple-protocol-telegram: Telegram Messenger plugin for Pidgin
 

Works fine for me.. Although id prefer a seperate app for it but it works fine with Pidgin. :-)

Re: [Announce] purple-protocol-telegram: Telegram Messenger plugin for Pidgin
 

Yeah - but what about the synchro-function and the Pidgin-tray-symbol?

Is the symbol shown at your phone? I can´t see the tray-icon, something seems to be wrong here...

Re: [Announce] purple-protocol-telegram: Telegram Messenger plugin for Pidgin
 

Nothing here too.

Re: [Announce] purple-protocol-telegram: Telegram Messenger plugin for Pidgin
 

hopefully it will be fixed....there seems to be a standalone app, too - but it looks like its in early beta and I didn´t tried it.

All in all it seems to have a nice functionality!

And I still need to test if phonebook synchronizes, for now I have no friends in there, but hopefully that changes soon.

Re: [Announce] purple-protocol-telegram: Telegram Messenger plugin for Pidgin
 

Same here. I have a few but not all syncd. But i do hope Telegram gets a port for N900.. so i dont have to use pidgin.

Re: [Announce] purple-protocol-telegram: Telegram Messenger plugin for Pidgin
 

Well while telegramm is ok for u, is not ok for many people. Pretty all contacts in my list using whatsapp, and I can't see need to migrate to telegram. What functionality does this provide over whatsapp? Advanced encryption?

Re: [Announce] purple-protocol-telegram: Telegram Messenger plugin for Pidgin
 

A lot. In example:

1) PC Client that synchronize all the conversations, photos, and every other file. So if you send me a file in a conversation by the phone I can use Telegram Desktop and download it directly from PC. (search for Telegram PC client on search engines)

2) Is free to use. Ok some bucks/year aren't a suicide but I have to include also that one.

3) Is veeeery faster than Whatsapp.

4) It is SIM independent, so I can have multiple connection using the same number from my PC, my phone, my tablet and so on.

The problem is that a lot of people stops at "But a lot of my contacts doesn't use Telegram, they use Whatsapp" :D

Re: [Announce] purple-protocol-telegram: Telegram Messenger plugin for Pidgin
 

Videocalls, no limit in filesize, no Facebook.....forget about Whatsapp.

Played around with it for a while now, but there still is lots of work necessary on N900-version/Pidgin-Plugin - I am not able to do videocalls atm, maybe a config-prob, dont know - file-transfer doesn´t work proper, menu/buttons are too small here and there....but in general the functions are great - hopefully it will be fixed and worked on soon.

But all in all it already have around the same functionality working as whatsapp! Enough to write with others.

What I did not checked out until now is a secure chat...

You´ll see it´s benefits if you use it - and the situation with your friends will change, if you´re doing the fist step and tell all of them to have a look, too.

Re: [Announce] purple-protocol-telegram: Telegram Messenger plugin for Pidgin
 

Sorry for offtopic, but one question - does it possible to build and install on N900 purple-vk-plugin? Will it work with Conversations? Or I need to add something in plugin code?
Added: oh fcuk, Conversations based on Telepathy, it's time to google how to port PC telepathy plugins to N900

Re: [Announce] purple-protocol-telegram: Telegram Messenger plugin for Pidgin
 

I tried this plugin a while ago and it didn't seem to work at all. Uninstalled and used the webapp (Easy Debian) but having a native solution is always preferred and I tried again and now it just seem to work :)
One problem though - receiving messages results in a crash.
Started pidgin from terminal
error message:

tgl/structures.c:2035: tglm_message_insert_tree:
Assertion 'M->id' failed.
Aborted

Any ideas how to solve this?

Re: [Announce] purple-protocol-telegram: Telegram Messenger plugin for Pidgin
 

It seems to be a known issue at least for the cli version.
https://github.com/vysheng/tg/issues/740
Based on that I think an update to the latest version is needed to solve this problem.

[edit] someone suggested to run the cli app as root. I also tried to run pidgin as root, but receiving messages still resulted in a crash.

Re: [Announce] purple-protocol-telegram: Telegram Messenger plugin for Pidgin
 

This might be the protocol related issue as telegram-purple in my Finch IM stopped working as well - client crashes with almost identical error.
I'm not using N900 anymore but I still have it so I can try to build the latest version some time later.

Don't expect much as building the previous versions has been a tedious work due to many GLib >= 2.28 only functions calls (unsupported in Maemo).

Re: [Announce] purple-protocol-telegram: Telegram Messenger plugin for Pidgin
 

Thanks that would be great! Even with the crashes I am still using pidgin with the plugin.

Sulu mentioned in the easy debian thread he had created an updated patched and compiled glib to work with the maemo kernel.
https://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?p=1490871
The actual link to glib is not working anymore, but I am sure someone can provide it if it would help you to port this. If you think it would help please let me know and I will make some requests in the appropriate threads.

Re: [Announce] purple-protocol-telegram: Telegram Messenger plugin for Pidgin
 

This post from sulu is about the GNU libc, not the (gnome project) glib.
Newer libglib versions (>=2.28) aren't incompatible with the maemo kernel, but they're not ABI-compatible with the one used in maemo ... and maemo is full of (core features) closed-source applications depending on glib.
Unfortunately, a lot of projects depend on recent glib stuff, as totalizator mentioned.

Re: [Announce] purple-protocol-telegram: Telegram Messenger plugin for Pidgin
 

Ah too bad.. thanks for correcting me and explaining.

Re: [Announce] purple-protocol-telegram: Telegram Messenger plugin for Pidgin
 

No news? :(
Still anyone working on it?

Pidgin tells me all the time "new version available" - same for Pidgin, will the N900 get an update at all?

How big is the chance that videocalls for example will ever work?

Re: [Announce] purple-protocol-telegram: Telegram Messenger plugin for Pidgin
 

Telegram (topic of this thread) doesn't provide video calls https://telegram.org/faq#q-can-i-mak...s-via-telegram

Re: [Announce] purple-protocol-telegram: Telegram Messenger plugin for Pidgin
 

Ok...anyhow, will there be updates for Telegram and Pidgin at all?

Re: [Announce] purple-protocol-telegram: Telegram Messenger plugin for Pidgin
 

Hi folks, I think that the crash problem is related to the check, I mean, the time when other people watch our sended message, and the notification arrives to our mobile.

Is it possible to avoid this check notification in Pidgin?

Thanks a lot.

Re: [Announce] purple-protocol-telegram: Telegram Messenger plugin for Pidgin
 

I was thinking of the possibility of running Pidgin within a script that plays a sound or vibrates whenever it crashes and restarts automatically.
An ugly hack - i'd rather have a permanent and better solution. Currently I am using the cli version.

Re: [Announce] purple-protocol-telegram: Telegram Messenger plugin for Pidgin
 

I have a question, how difficult it would be (for a Dev.) to implement libpurple-telegram to the Maemo Messages (so it can act like a XMPP or Skype or whatever else)?
As i understand, the ui is already there, only a plugin must be implemented.
Wouldn't it be easier than write a GUI for Telegram-cli?

Re: [Announce] purple-protocol-telegram: Telegram Messenger plugin for Pidgin
 

A thoughtful point by explit.. What do you guys suggest?

Re: [Announce] purple-protocol-telegram: Telegram Messenger plugin for Pidgin
 

Three problems found using purple-protocol-telegram:
1- not in Maemo Conversations, need to use pidgin
2- pidgin crash at check notification
3- stickers arrive as .webp image, that Pidgin can't show

but I think is not easy to fix them.

Re: [Announce] purple-protocol-telegram: Telegram Messenger plugin for Pidgin
 

I have built the latest 1.2.6 telegram plugin (quite a bit of work, actually). It seems to work, but needs testing. The crash should be gone. Stickers should work too.
Please, install both deb packages and report back, if it works I'll upload it to extras-devel.

Re: [Announce] purple-protocol-telegram: Telegram Messenger plugin for Pidgin
 

Awesome!

Installed it - haven't seen issues during installing. Just sent one message but it is pretty late in the Netherlands so don't expect an answer before tomorrow. Will start using it and let you know if it works for me :)

Re: [Announce] purple-protocol-telegram: Telegram Messenger plugin for Pidgin
 

OK - some additional comments.
Works fine - not missed any message. Can send and receive pictures as well. Can't receive / see smiley’s or stickers but I don't think they worked in the previous version too.
Most important thing - the crashes - is solved :)