Re: Call for testing empathy
Le lundi 18 août 2008 à 11:05 -0500, Mario Limonciello a écrit : Something else that I haven't seen brought up yet is a migration path to empathy. I've seen indications that it uses a purple backend (above), so will all pidgin settings just translate over? It that above indication was incorrect, is there a tool for doing the migration? If not, I would expect a lot of people will be unhappy to suddenly lose a lot of their settings upon upgrades. Empathy team is working on a tool to import Pidgin accounts. http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=541060 G. -- Guillaume Desmottes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabber [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG 1024D/711E31B1 | 1B5A 1BA8 11AA F0F1 2169 E28A AC55 8671 711E 31B1 -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list ubuntu-desktop@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop
Re: Call for testing empathy
2008/8/8 Laurent Bigonville [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello everyone, Empathy[1] will be part of the upcoming GNOME 2.24 desktop. The ubuntu desktop team considers using it instead of Pidgin for intrepid as default IM client. If you are running intrepid, please give empathy a test and report bugs to launchpad[2]. It may be installed by running synaptic and installing the empathy package or by running sudo apt-get install empathy. If you experiment a bug have a look at [3] before reporting. With all due respect, that's a very, very bad idea. I didn't have very high expectations when I first installed it to try it out.I think Pidgin does an excellent job, and that it would take a very strong argument for it to be replaced at all. However, I still felt disappointed. The GUI felt awkward, it seemed to be missing a lot of features compared to Pidgin. What surprised me the most, though, was that it wasn't even in main! I think the project is on the right track. It has some interesting proposals, and in the future, I'm sure it's features will make it a good replacement for Pidgin, but not yet. By all means, promote it to main and make it available to the mainstream users, but _please_ don't replace Pidgin with this in Intrepid. It's way too soon. Jo-Erlend Schinstad -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list ubuntu-desktop@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop
Re: Call for testing empathy
I liked the interface slightly more than pidgin's (the away icons rock). But agree, that it might be to quick, Pidgin has a lot of functionality. One that I use (and currently is shipping by default) is off the record messaging. It appears to me that Empathy could eventually replace both Pidgin and Ekiga. I don't currently use Ekiga, but can anyone tell me how close Empathy is to being comparable? If it can replace Ekiga, perhaps it could do that for Intrepid and leave Pidgin alone for now? -Bryan Quigley On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 8:31 AM, Jo-Erlend Schinstad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2008/8/8 Laurent Bigonville [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello everyone, Empathy[1] will be part of the upcoming GNOME 2.24 desktop. The ubuntu desktop team considers using it instead of Pidgin for intrepid as default IM client. If you are running intrepid, please give empathy a test and report bugs to launchpad[2]. It may be installed by running synaptic and installing the empathy package or by running sudo apt-get install empathy. If you experiment a bug have a look at [3] before reporting. With all due respect, that's a very, very bad idea. I didn't have very high expectations when I first installed it to try it out.I think Pidgin does an excellent job, and that it would take a very strong argument for it to be replaced at all. However, I still felt disappointed. The GUI felt awkward, it seemed to be missing a lot of features compared to Pidgin. What surprised me the most, though, was that it wasn't even in main! I think the project is on the right track. It has some interesting proposals, and in the future, I'm sure it's features will make it a good replacement for Pidgin, but not yet. By all means, promote it to main and make it available to the mainstream users, but _please_ don't replace Pidgin with this in Intrepid. It's way too soon. Jo-Erlend Schinstad -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list ubuntu-desktop@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list ubuntu-desktop@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop
Re: Call for testing empathy
On Tue, 2008-08-19 at 11:12 +0200, Guillaume Desmottes wrote: Le lundi 18 août 2008 à 11:05 -0500, Mario Limonciello a écrit : Something else that I haven't seen brought up yet is a migration path to empathy. I've seen indications that it uses a purple backend (above), so will all pidgin settings just translate over? It that above indication was incorrect, is there a tool for doing the migration? If not, I would expect a lot of people will be unhappy to suddenly lose a lot of their settings upon upgrades. Empathy team is working on a tool to import Pidgin accounts. http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=541060 Is there any tool to import Pidgin logs? I'd like to try Empathy, but I'd hate to lose all my history. G. -- Guillaume Desmottes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabber [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG 1024D/711E31B1 | 1B5A 1BA8 11AA F0F1 2169 E28A AC55 8671 711E 31B1 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list ubuntu-desktop@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop
