## Can I use pidgin-facebookchat/msn-pecan/(insert third-party prpl here) with Haze?

Kind of. Currently, you'll need to patch `haze.manager`, and add a `.profile` file for the protocol. (This is vaguely outlined on [[this bug report|https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17907]].) 

Non-standard protocols will not be added to `haze.manager`. The `.manager` files are intended just to be a cache of what [[ListProtocols()|http://telepathy.freedesktop.org/spec/org.freedesktop.Telepathy.ConnectionManager.html#org.freedesktop.Telepathy.ConnectionManager.ListProtocols]] would return if the CM was running. Since Haze uses libpurple, which loads plugins at runtime, this cache is basically broken. Sadly, current Telepathy clients depend on the presence of a `.manager` file for a CM, so Haze ships the best it can: the set of protocols shipped as standard with libpurple. This means that you can be reasonably sure that if `haze.manager` says a protocol's available, it'll be available when the CM's running. Adding non-standard protocols would break this. 

Correct clients should react to a missing `.manager` file by firing up the CM and interrogating it. `TpConnectionManager` in [[Telepathy GLib|Components/Telepathy GLib]] now does this correctly. Sadly, Mission Control 4 (as used by Empathy) does this wrong. When Empathy moves to Mission Control 5 (which should be in time for Gnome 2.28) then this will all work and `haze.manager` can be deleted.

Sorry for any inconvenience caused.