Mark Shuttleworth wrote: > > FYI, comments on the Ayatana list about Empathy. Vincenzo, these are > good feedback, best put in the hands of the desktop team who are > integrating Empathy. > > Mark > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Subject: > [Ayatana] Empathy is not in line with the much discussed guidelines > From: > Vincenzo Ciancia <[email protected]> > Date: > Tue, 23 Jun 2009 17:30:34 +0200 > To: > ubuntu-devel-discuss <[email protected]> > > To: > ubuntu-devel-discuss <[email protected]> > CC: > ayatana <[email protected]> > > > [CC-ing ayatana, if this is wrong just tell me] > > Today I tried empathy on my karmic testing system. Here are the scores. > The last part IS VERY IMPORTANT please read it too. Don't thake my > comments as angry, I'm just in a hurry. > > +1 The first time I launch it, it offers me to import accounts from > pidgin. Very good > > -1 It crashes immediately later > > 0 I restart it and it does not crash, so that I can't report it > > -1 It does not allow me to open any kind of chat, it says something > related to EMPATHY_IS_CONTACT(contact) failed > > +1 I close it, reopen, and it starts working. This should be 0, as it > is already supposed to work, but I want to be nice on it. > > -1 I receive a notification that the IRC bot has recognised me. Please > find a way to avoid this! Pidgin has a couple of plugins to handle the > "rough corners of IRC" and at least identification MUST be done properly > (it should not need any plugin in principle). >
Relatedly: Empathy cannot import IRC accounts from Pidgin properly. See: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/empathy/+bug/388906 It may be largely solvable just by adding telepathy-idle to the seeds. Thanks, Scott Ritchie -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop
