On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 5:51 PM, Tomas Forsman <tfors...@foresightlinux.se> wrote: > Empathy handles now video and voice chats too, but both ends needs to > have either webcam or mic to make it work (pidgin is the same)
>From the GNOME 2.28 release notes: "if a contact does not have video, their avatar will be displayed". > Empathy can handle irc too. > But missing other colors if someone writes your name, hard to know if > someone actually mentioned your name. >From the GNOME 2.28 release notes: "if your name is mentioned in a chat room or conversation, that tab's text will become red." > Also need to have the windows open to stay in channels, if you close > them you will leave the channel. Isn't it the same for Pidgin? > to try it out: > sudo conary update group-telepathy Note that this is version 2.27.91, things might change a little in a few days with the release of GNOME 2.28. > So we want feedback on what you think about using empathy instead of > pidgin in foresight. I tried it a few months ago and had some problems: * I didn't get any message that people sent me over Google talk. * I was in some IRC chat rooms but couldn't get a window for those. I'll give another go to check if I still have issues. > all information between those 2 are welcome, whats good and whats not. > We can also take this up in council meeting after we tried it out. Yes, we first need to wait for more people to try it out and get an opinion. -- Alexandre Franke _______________________________________________ Foresight-devel mailing list Foresight-devel@lists.rpath.org http://lists.rpath.org/mailman/listinfo/foresight-devel
