On Monday 13 February 2012 13:47:41 Clay Weber wrote: > On Monday, February 13, 2012 05:40:31 PM Jonathan Riddell wrote: > > Rohan and friends have got kde-telepathy to a place where it's ready to be > > uploaded which I'm doing now. > > > > We need testers to decide if it's better or worse than kopete. > > kde-telepathy is new and not well tested. kopete is old and > > unmaintained. We have to decide by feature freeze on thursday. > > > > Testers add this PPA > > https://launchpad.net/~telepathy-kde/+archive/ppa > > > > and install kde-telepathy and run "contacts" from k-menu or alt-f2. > > > > Jonathan > > It is actually quite good, imo, but potential caveats: > The Instant Messaging Presence widget- should this be added to the systray > on install? Closing the Contact list does give a warning about staying > online or to go offline, but there is no systray icon or panel entry once > you close it. > > Some other small UI things here and there in a similar vein, plus the > obvious lack of features as compared to kopete. > > Overall it is good, and even has a basic irc plugin available! > I will use it myself as my day-to-day im client. > > However, as an lts, how does updating telepathy-kde work, would we be able > to add a new, better version as necessary, or are we stuck with 0.3 for the > life of the release? If the latter, then I would vote for Kopete I think. > > Take all the above into account from me realizing that I have not yet used > 0.3 for any chats as of yet, so that part is as of yet untested.
Hi, I think that LTS version should have stable IM client. Kopete is old but more stable and tested. -- Pali Rohár [email protected]
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