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lmello

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From: Brazil

Registered: 2012-11-06

Posts: 300

Any development of a Google Hangouts standalone linux application?

So, I used gtalk a lot with Pidgin (and later Empathy) before its 'death' or 'transition' to Google Hangouts. I can use it as a chrome extension but Windows users have a standalone application, which is a lot better.

Or even a telepathy plugin - even if the plugin isn't FOSS, is such a plugin feasible, so it would work with Empathy and KDE Telepathy, for example?

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Rob_H

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Registered: 2012-06-19

Posts: 72

Re: Any development of a Google Hangouts standalone linux application?

XMPP made it possible for third-party clients to hook into Google Talk back in the day. But after the merge with Hangouts, XMPP support was dropped. Google has signaled through its actions that it's not interested in opening up Hangouts to third-party integrations, so I doubt we'll ever see something like this--or, if we do, it'll be a clandestine effort at constant risk of being blocked.

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