And here's a nice blog post about the latest improvements to empathy-- http://blogs.gnome.org/xclaesse/2008/04/21/announce-empathy-0231/
I got that off the ubuntu forums thread which initially had bad reactions (due to people trying to outdated version) but then more people showed support towards the end http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=876847 On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 3:55 AM, Danny Piccirillo < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Here's a great example i just saw on Digg: > http://blog.ibeentoubuntu.com/2008/08/gnome-has-empathy-for-you.html > (and here's the digg link) > http://digg.com/linux_unix/Gnome_has_Empathy_for_You > > Also, i think testing Empathy is a great idea. If it ends up being included > in Ubuntu, i don't see any real problems. Anyone who is so attached to > pidgin will simply install it. New users will be fine and happy with Empathy > and all its benefits. > > Either way, we're just testing it! If we don't test it we could be missing > out on something that would be really great. > > On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 7:05 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > >> I'm a bit confused about the desired outcome of this proposal. From the >> discussion, it seems to be an attempt to get more developers looking at >> a new messaging framework with the potential to do all sorts of weird >> >> and wonderful things. If so, then replacing Pidgin as the default IM >> client seems like a bad plan - I would expect devs to already have a >> favourite IM client, which they'll install unless they have a compelling >> >> reason to switch. On the other hand, I'd expect newbies to use the >> default because they don't know they have a choice. That would lead to >> a small developer base supporting a lot of users submitting bug reports >> >> about making Empathy a better IM client, which would take developer time >> away from being creative. >> >> Could you give some examples of existing Ubuntu applications that would >> benefit from integrating (lib)empathy? >> >> - Andrew >> >> >
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