On Fri, Aug 08, 2008 at 10:12:57PM +0200, Laurent Bigonville wrote: > 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. > > Empathy consists of a rich set of reusable instant messaging widgets, > and a GNOME client using those widgets. It uses Telepathy and Nokia's > Mission Control, and reuses Gossip's UI. The main goal is to permit > desktop integration by providing libempathy and libempathy-gtk > libraries. libempathy-gtk is a set of powerful widgets that can be > embeded into any GNOME application. > > The Telepathy[4] project is building a unified framework for many > different kinds of real-time communications. It uses the D-Bus > messaging system to provide a simple interface for client applications, > allowing them to quickly take advantage of Telepathy's benefits. > Telepathy supports XMPP(jabber), MSN, ICQ, SIP, ...
I installed it and selected Applications->Internet->Empathy. Nothing happened, except for the appearance of an icon in the notification area, which, if I were not familiar with this misbehavior from certain other applications, would have gone completely unnoticed. Surely it should display a window the first time it is run? -- - mdz -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
