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@@ -1,2 +1,24 @@ +Empathy is split in different processes: +- src/empathy: contact list, considered as the main UI +- src/empathy-chat: chat UI +- src/empathy-call: call UI +- src/empathy-accounts: UI to configure IM accounts +- src/empathy-debugger: debug tool + +Each process can be run directly from source without having to be installed to +its prefix. You just have to define the environment variable EMPATHY_SRCDIR +to the path of your empathy source dir. For example: + export EMPATHY_SRCDIR=/home/cassidy/gnome/empathy + +The chat and call UI are automatically started by telepathy-mission-control +when receiving or requesting a chat/call. In order to use your custom version +you have to kill any existing instance of empathy-{chat,call} and then start +it with EMPATHY_PERSIST=1 to prevent it from auto exiting if there is no +channel to handle. For example: + EMPATHY_PERSIST=1 ./src/empathy-chat + +Debugging can be turned on using EMPATHY_DEBUG=all and logged to a file +with EMPATHY_LOGFILE=/tmp/empathy.log + See http://live.gnome.org/Empathy/ about coding style conventions. See also http://live.gnome.org/Empathy/Git to read about our git workflow. |