Turning off Facebook Platform prevents log in to Facebook chat
Submitted by Michael
Assigned to Telepathy bugs list
Description
For the longest time, I could not log into Facebook chat using KDE Telepathy, and could not determine why because it worked perfectly for awhile.
I finally found the problem, but it's not immediately intuitive.
If you go to this link:
https://www.facebook.com/settings?tab=applications§ion=opt_out&view
...and click the "Turn Off Platform" button, then Telepathy will never connect to Facebook chat. However, if you turn the platform back on, then Telepathy will log in and work as expected.
If the platform is turned off, according to Facebook: "This means you can't use the Facebook integrations on third party apps or websites. If you want to use these apps and websites with Facebook, turn Platform back on."
"Turning Platform back on resets related settings (such as your "Apps others use" setting) and allows Facebook to receive information about your use of third party apps and websites."
I didn't realize that me wanting to limit the way that Facebook connects to other websites would affect Telepathy chat.
An idea: is it possible that Telepathy could query the Facebook API and see if the user has Platform integration turned on? And pass that back to the UI?
(This bug was first reported on KDE's Telepathy bug tracker: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=333224)