Originally Posted by circuitjc

Updated the patch even though there was no MSN changes. Everything un/installs perfectly. Found out the half green circle was because I had a Google Talk account that I don't use so it was showing I was logged in to not all of my accounts.

Right after the reboot everything worked fine. I signed out and signed back in and now I can't send messages. Can't start a convo. Can't reply. MSN is useless this way. I have since uninstalled the messaging plugins. It is not usable for me for some reason.

Just in case someone else has the same issues I found that Microsoft and Bell (my carrier) work together to have MSN messenger contacts use SMS to send and receive messages which works great. So now my MSN messenger account is set up with a mobile phone number. Just putting that out there as an alternative for people who can't use this patch.

The only real downfall is that I can't delete the MSN Live contacts but I can live with that. Hopefully Palm can get MSN Live Messenger supported natively then everything is happy.

This is not to take anything away from Greg's work. It obviously works for a lot of people. Just not me unfortunately.

Originally Posted by elryon

was trying this on my emulator and found a problem... worked great until restarted. I had only set up an msn account and irc account and they worked fine, even with a restart of luna, but when the emulator was shutdown and restarted, i couldn't sign in to either. I have no messaging patches installed atm, and even removed the irc, restared luna, and still won't sign in to msn... both use similar usernames... rebooting after removing the irc still did not help. removed msn and added irc back and still no go... had to uninstall app and reinstall to get to work, just couldn't have both accounts after restart. had just the msn and rebooted and still worked fine, only after adding the irc account did it not sign in after reboot.

Originally Posted by maxima2k53

hey greg...is there a way to remove that empty bar from the screen shot?

Originally Posted by greg_roll

Hi maxima2k53,

What version are you running? If its 1.1.0 there shouldnt be facebook on there. Looks like the uninstall didn't work properly.

Greg

Originally Posted by greg_roll

Hi elryon,

For some reason everytime the emulator restarts it resets two symbolic links and thats why it stops working.

Root to the emulator and run the following commands

rm /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
ln -s /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0.1400.4 /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
rm /usr/lib/libpurple.so
rm /usr/lib/libpurple.so.0
ln -s /usr/lib/libpurple.so.0.5.1 /usr/lib/libpurple.so
ln -s /usr/lib/libpurple.so.0.5.1 /usr/lib/libpurple.so.0

kill `ps -ef | grep LibpurpleAdapterExt | grep -v grep | awk '{print $2}'`

Then try again,
Let me know how it goes.

If any linux person can explain why symbolic links would change after a restart please let me know.

Thanks,
Greg

Originally Posted by SiLlY

Do I have to upgrade? My old version works absolutely perfect for me. Thanks Greg!

Originally Posted by volcom45

Hi Greg,
For some reason when I go to add IRC, I do exactly as you state with typing user@servername for the username field. However, it won't let me add as it says I haven't entered a password. Are we supposed to enter anything in the password field? Maybe I misunderstood you but I can't add without it, it seems.

Originally Posted by VeeDubb65

First of all, the IM app in the pre is NOT Pidgin or based on Pidgin in any way. That is like saying that a Chevy is a Toyota because they both use gas. The IM app in the Pre uses an instant messaging library on the back-end called libpurple, which is the same library used by the Pidgin. The actual messaging app and Pidgin are unrelated.

Now, as far as having all those contacts put in your contacts app, you seem to be missing the whole point of Synergy. The way WebOS is designed, you never (or almost never) need to even look at the contacts application, except to manually enter a contact on the Pre, in which case, it doesn't matter how many contacts are in there. Further, if you have a cell number for texting a person and their IM information, you can link those contacts in the contacts app, allowing you to seemlessly transition from an IM conversation to texting and back with 2 screen taps, and keep it all organized as a single threaded conversation.


On the other hand, if you're really insistant on keeping them separated, and keeping them out of your contacts (although I think that's the wrong way to go) there are at least two commercial apps in the works that will allow for multi-protocol messaging support in a separate app. I strongly suspect that one or both of those will keep them separate. The built in app, probably never will, and it certainly shouldn't as a part of something like Greg's plugin.