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
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