Did they add IRC support? We really want to have an IRC client by default (Pidgin is one).
On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 2:41 AM, Danny Piccirillo < [email protected]> wrote: > Intrepid+1 approaches-- is it too late to reconsider Empathy for inclusion? > > > I just tried the newest version of Empathy and things look a lot better! > File transfers now work and it picks up my webcam/mic! > > On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 4:52 PM, Matthew Paul Thomas > <[email protected]>wrote: > >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> Laurent Bigonville wrote on 08/08/08 21:12: >> >... >> > 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]. >> >... >> >> To help in this decision, I have evaluated the usability of Empathy and >> Pidgin, and written up my findings. >> <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/EmpathyVsPidginUsability> >> In summary, I suggest that Ubuntu continue using Pidgin by default for >> Intrepid, and that we reconsider Empathy for Intrepid+1. >> >> Empathy currently does a couple of big things Pidgin does not (audio and >> video chat), and handles one big feature much better than Pidgin (chat >> logging). But I found most features were more obvious in Pidgin, >> especially account setup, which is important for anyone who will start >> using IM in Intrepid. (And people who were already using either Empathy >> or Pidgin in a previous version of Ubuntu will continue using the same >> program in Intrepid anyway, regardless of our decision.) >> >> I found dozens of small learnability and efficiency problems in both >> programs, and I have not yet had time to report them all as bugs. If >> anyone would like to help out with this, especially in finding bugs that >> have already been reported, I'd greatly appreciate it. (Wherever the >> wiki page says "()", it needs a link to a bug report.) >> >> Cheers >> - -- >> Matthew Paul Thomas >> http://mpt.net.nz/ >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- >> Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) >> Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org >> >> iD8DBQFIrJIj6PUxNfU6ecoRAgHOAKCMNPqz15lfIkvKSlOhvkhpDdcy3ACgueHC >> DX06VJtu0JXEZHeibFY4gA8= >> =9uzC >> -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- >> >> -- >> ubuntu-desktop mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop >> > > > -- > ubuntu-desktop mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop > >
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