Gnome online accounts does not include irc (for Empathy)

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This is due to "account-plugin-irc" not being included in the packages with the Ubuntu-Gnome (64-bit) image. The following are included by default:

account-plugin-aim
account-plugin-facebook
account-plugin-flickr
account-plugin-generic-oauth
account-plugin-google
account-plugin-identica
account-plugin-jabber
account-plugin-salut
account-plugin-twitter
account-plugin-windows-live
account-plugin-yahoo

However account-plugin-irc is not included, and thus not available in the Online Accounts.

are you using gnome-shell or unity? the account plugins are for "Ubuntu Online Account" and unity, not for GNOME/gnome-shell which uses "GNOME Online Account" (you wrote "Gnome online account" in the bug title)

I am using Gnome-Shell, from the Ubuntu Gnome 13.04 (64-bit) beta image (ie unity itself not installed).

I can reproduce with:

Open Empathy.
Click on Empathy Menu > Accounts
Choose Add Account
-- IRC Is not listed.

Open Terminal.
run: sudo apt-get install account-plugin-irc
Open Empathy
Click on Empathy Menu > Accounts
Choose Add Account
-- IRC is now available to be added to Empathy.

As mentioned previously I am using Ubuntu Gnome and these other UOA packages are included.

account-plugin-aim
account-plugin-facebook
account-plugin-flickr
account-plugin-generic-oauth
account-plugin-google
account-plugin-identica
account-plugin-jabber
account-plugin-salut
account-plugin-twitter
account-plugin-windows-live
account-plugin-yahoo

Also see this bug for reference:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-control-center/+bug/1040193

In particular note:
"Empathy has been built to use ubuntu-online-accounts — to the extent that Empathy will open that configuration panel when the user chooses Accounts from its menu."

ah ok, I see, the GNOME edition has both then ...

seems similar to bug #1056209 then, plugin should be installed on demanded if needed