Ubuntu – How to move tab bar in empathy

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Empathy is a rather nice IM client and I like the included themes, but I don't see how to move my tabs in my conversation windows to the bottom of the window instead of the top.. any ideas?

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As far as I know it can only be done by modifying and recompiling the source.

It's looks like a trivial change, but you will need some minimum background in programming. This is the important file. In the 2051 line they create the notebook. You will need to add a line like this afterwards:

gtk_notebook_set_tab_pos (GTK_NOTEBOOK (priv->notebook), GTK_POS_BOTTOM);

Note that I didn't test it, it will likely work, but...

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Where does Empathy save files (accounts, logs, configuration)?

Accounts settings are saved in ~/.mission-control/accounts/accounts.cfg (except passwords which are stored in gnome-keyring).

New logs (since Empathy 2.31.4) are saved in ~/.local/share/TpLogger/logs

Old logs are saved in ~/.local/share/Empathy/logs/

Empathy configuration is stored in DConf and ~/.config/Empathy/

Avatars are cached in ~/.cache/telepathy/avatars/

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The IM system in Ubuntu is called Telepathy. Empathy is a GUI for some aspects of it. But Telepathy is really different from Pidgin. It is designed to be accessed by different applications at the same time, for instance. IE, a contact application would simply make a request for a phone call, and then you'd get a GUI to end the phone call, etc. The contact application would not have to worry about the kind of protocol used, etc. That's Telepathys job.

So you could use Pidgin instead of Empathy, but Pidgin cannot replace it because it's a completely different thing. You'd want to get a plugin to integrate it with the message indicator. I don't know if such a plugin exists, but you could always program it yourself. Both Pidgin and Indicators have good APIs and documentation.

Pidgin could potentially be used as a GUI for Telepathy though.

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