codergeek42

So, over the weekend my parents and I decided to head out of town for a bit, mostly on a whim. We came back to find that only about a fifth of our house's electricity worked: random outlets around the house gave us just enough for essentials: refrigerator/freezer, microwave, stove, some lights, one TV, and a couple of extra outlets for plugging in our mobile phones and other rechargeable portable electronics - and this was after being clever with the use of some extension cords. Apparently, one of the two main bus fuses to our house had literally cracked open due to the weather and the natural wear and tear of its nearly 20 years of loyal service to my family.

We were soon able to get the city's electric company to fix it all up nicely (and replace some of our outdated power cabling in the process); but this is such an antiquated part that it needed to be special-ordered. We ended up spending the past half-week or so just living on what we could power, and that amounted trying to stay out of the house much: dining at local restaurants and going out shopping or to the library, etc. It did give me much reading time though, so I finally finished Deathly Hallows. (!) When we were at home, there wasn't much to be done other than talk and read, or play Sūdoku on our phones, et al. (While I enjoy this abounding of quality family time, it just goes to show how much we've vested technology into the very fabric of our lives.)

Anyway, now that I'm back online, I see I've got a whole slew of updates to bake for my various Fedora packages. I promise I'll get to those soon but I'm going through them as quickly as I can (and this Midori build failure is still driving me nuts...) - please be patient! I should have them all bumped and building by the weekend, assuming no other show-stoppers.

I've also got a solid 2300 new emails to sift through too. Evolution's filters help significantly, but it's still a mess sometimes. :( It eems that no matter how much I love it, technology and I just can't seem to get along quite right most of the time. Sadness...

(Oh, and L'arc~en~Ciel's new single album, "Nexus 4 / Shine" is AWESOME. Let it be so known!)

Thanks to Colin Walters, Empathy should now automagically take care of the MC profile renaming upon startup.

Well, it will...once Koji is back up. The changes are tagged in CVS and simply need to be built. :)

Posted this to the development mailing list; but the more I post it the more people will see it... :)

Hi, all.

The Mission Control profiles in the telepathy-haze-mission-control package were originally created manually based on the Jabber/XMPP profile to allow Telepathy-using applications to support the basics of libpurple's more common protocols: AIM/ICQ, MSN, and Yahoo! IM.

However, these are getting rather stale and upstream Empathy already has nicely-working profiles for Haze (with more protocol support than the old subpackage). So, in an effort to more closely track upstream's code and profiles (therefore slightly reducing the package maintenance work), I have committed and am now building new telepathy-haze and empathy
packages that use Empathy's profiles instead of manually-created ones.

These should hit tomorrow's rawhide but unfortunately it means that the profiles have been renamed. I have included a script named "upgrade-haze-profiles.sh" (installed as documentation) with Empathy that automagically fixes this on a per-user basis; but this script needs to be run manually.

(Come to think of it, we may need to add this as a minor upgrade-related fix in the Release Notes...)

Thanks, and happy hacking.