On Sun, 2007-09-23 at 22:17 +0100, Ross Burton wrote: > On Sun, 2007-09-23 at 16:00 -0500, Jason D. Clinton wrote: > > Needless duplication of work covered by Pidgin and Ekiga (and, so far, > > done better). This is a reimplementation of the wheel. > > Empathy is a UI around an IM platform which totally replaces the > single-application model of pidgin, ekiga, gossip and every other IM > client. With Empathy I can go online when I login and using the same > Jabber connection chat in Empathy, see presence in Evolution, and > transfer files in nautilus. I'll be logged into the Jabber server once, > and the connection is shared between them. > what about IRC? Would we need to have xchat around if using empathy? As you say, having all those apps not share anything but the network cable is a pain for users, so I'm all for having a single backend to manage messaging, included IRC.
Also, if it provides a library/backend to be shared amongst apps, can/will Ekiga use that? -- Rodrigo Moya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
