Showing posts with label Empathy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Empathy. Show all posts

Tuesday, February 22, 2011

TCL Code to convert Empathy Chat Logs to HTML

I have had it with Empathy and to completely sever my dependence to this Instant Messenger, I had written a TCL code to convert the chat log to something Pidgin finds easier to handle.

Please note that this script is in a very rough form and I cannot stress enough to BACKUP YOUR DATA. I've seen a couple of minor bugs but I think it should convert the messages just fine. This will delete the old log files after processing them, so please remember to BACKUP YOUR DATA.

THIS SCRIPT IS OFFERED AS IS WITH NO EXPLICIT NOR IMPLICIT GUARANTEES IT WILL WORK. USE AT YOUR OWN RISK.

Without further ado... TCL Script

Monday, February 21, 2011

UPDATE: And now, forced to backport Pidgin for Karmic

After some time of tolerating Empathy on Karmic, I have finally had enough of this. The app just does not get updates and I'm experiencing MSN frustrations with it as buddies do not appear when they do on Pidgin.

As it turns out, Pidgin is outdated on Karmic so, I am once again forced to cut myself my own release of Pidgin. This gets really boring after a while, but hopefully I can now get video and voice on Pidgin compiled to see how that goes.

Update: It's done. 2.7.10 on my Karmic. I had a few complications but nothing show-stopping. Libtools was complaining and I did this:
autoreconf --force