Bug 37876

Summary:	Logger doesn't find Pidgin logs for the meanwhile plugin
Product:	Telepathy	Reporter:	Matt Lavin <matt.lavin>
Component:	logger	Assignee:	Telepathy bugs list <telepathy-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED MOVED	QA Contact:	Telepathy bugs list <telepathy-bugs>
Severity:	normal
Priority:	high	CC:	nicolas
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	Other
OS:	All
Whiteboard:
i915 platform:		i915 features:

Description Matt Lavin 2011-06-03 06:47:45 UTC

While trying to move from Pidgin to Empathy, I noticed that Empathy did not detect my old Pidgin logs for my meanwhile based accounts.  It turns out that the method used to compute the log directory for meanwhile accounts seems to be different in pidgin and empathy, so the logs are not found.  Pidgin stores logs for meanwhile based accounts in 

~/.purple/logs/meanwhile

but Telepathy-Logger seems to look for them in 

~/.purple/logs/sametime

To work around this issue, I created a symbolic link from ~/.purple/logs/sametime to ~/.purple/logs/meanwhile and Empathy started to show my previous conversations.

Comment 1 Nicolas Dufresne 2011-06-03 07:45:17 UTC

Interesting, so for Sametime they use the plugin name and not the protocol name for logs. We will need to add this exception, should be fairly easy. It would be nice to provide some sample logs, I would add them to the unit tests.

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