On 9/24/07, Claudio Saavedra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 2007-09-24 at 00:10 -0500, Jason D. Clinton wrote: > > * It appears to be a fork of Gossip and intended to replace Gossip. > > The Gossip author has stated that Gossip is not dead. Gossip has > > telepathy support... > > * It appears to want to replace the default IM client installed in > > distros (Pidgin). > > These are not real concerns. Nor pidgin or gossip are part of the GNOME > Desktop. I'd be worried if gossip were proposed for inclusion in GNOME, > though, but that's not the case. > > And I'm not even stating these facts hold... which is a different > matter, but irrelevant for the discussion ongoing.
I agree with Claudio; let's drop these from further discussion. > > * It appears to want to replace Ekiga. There appears to be no buy-in > > from Ekiga developers. There's no IM in GNOME. If there's an effort to create a framework that "appears to want to replace" current technologies I think that's a good thing. In order words: integration. I'm not saying that Ekiga should be dropped. I'm saying that for the time being it's better to have IM support _in_ GNOME than nothing at all. I propose to drop Ekiga from further discussion too. > > * It doesn't implement all of the features it lists as its benefits. > > (maybe could be fixed by 2.22 release) > > These could be interesting issues, *if* they are backed up. If you are > really against empathy inclusion in 2.22, I'd suggest you to focus in > these particular points. * Adds IM support to GNOME That's something that it's currently doing and I think that's a huge benefit. So what is it really missing for 2.22. You mentioned documentation and I think that's something that can be fixed for 2.22, but we would have to ask the Telepathy guys too. Best regards. -- Felipe Contreras _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
