Telegram-purple is a Libpurple plugin that adds support for the Telegram messenger. Its still in an early (pre-alpha) development stage, but already provides basic chat functionality and group chats.
The plugin is based on the library [Libtgl](https://github.com/vysheng/tgl), which was written by Vitaly Valtman <mail@vysheng.ru> and others, see (http://github.com/vysheng/tgl)
- Secret Chats (See the section below for further information)
- Chats/Group-Chats
* Send/receive messages
* Discover buddies/chats
* Discover buddy state and info
- Profile Pictures
* Download and use profile pictures
- Adium Plugin
## Using secret chats
You can use Telegram secret chats with this plugin, they will show up as a new buddy with a '!' in front of the buddy name.
One caveat of secret chats in Telegram is that they can only have one endpoint, this is a limitation of the protocol. This means that if you create a secret chat in Pidgin you will not be able to use that chat on your phone. You will be asked whether to accept each secret chat, so you can always choose to accept the chat on a different device if you want. You can set a default behavior for dealing with secret chats (Accept or Decline) in the account settings if you don't want that prompt to appear every time.
Self destructive messages will be ignored, since I don't know any way to delete them from the conversation and the history.
### Confirming the key authenticity
Click on the buddy in the buddy list and click on "Show Info" to visualize the key fingerprint.
### Initiate secret chats
To initiate a secret chat from Pidgin, click on a Buddy in the Buddy List and hit ``Start Secret Chat''
### Deleting secret chat
If you delete a secret chat from the buddy list, it will be terminated and no longer be usable.
Warning, this version is mainly for development and testing and NOT for productive use. Even though it already provides basic features, you should still expect bugs and crashes when running it.
When encountering a crash or some other bugs, please report it to us, preferably together with a backtrace of the crashed application [https://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/GetABacktrace]
We only provide an installation guide for Linux right now, even though it should be possible to compile this plugin on other platforms. If someone manages to create a working Windows or BSD-build please let us know.
# Installation Instructions
Unfortunately there are no packages right now, so you need to compile it yourself:
After succesfully completing all steps mentioned in the installation instructions, you should restart Pidgin to ensure that the plugin is loaded. When everything went well, Telegram should show up in the account manager:
The username is your current phone number, including your full country prefix instead of a leading '0'. For Germany, this would be '+49' for example. Telegram will verify your phone number by sending you a verification code via sms. You will be prompted for this code, once that happens.
1. Compile the source of your current Adium version and add the created frameworks to the Adium-Telegram build path.
2. Get zlib and libcrypto.a and provide it somewhere in your build path.
3. Build the XCode-Project and execute the created bundle
# Unicode Emojis for Pidgin
The Telegram phone applications for iOS and Android make use of standardized Unicode smileys (called [Emojis](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emoji)). Pidgin
does not display those smileys natively, but you can install a custom smiley theme like (https://github.com/stv0g/unicode-emoji) or (https://github.com/VxJasonxV/emoji-for-pidgin) and activate it under Settings > Themes > Smiley Theme.
# Authors
Telegram-Purple and Telegram-Adium were written by:
- Matthias Jentsch <mtthsjntsch@gmail.com>
- Christopher Althaus <althaus.christopher@gmail.com>
