On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 8:37 PM, Bryan Quigley <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 8:26 PM, stranger in black..... <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> 2009/10/8 Mallikarjun <[email protected]>: >> >> > Though Empathy has very less >> > features but works very well, yes better than pidgin in my case. >> > >> Does it support google video and voice chat...........???? New pidgin >> support all these...... > > I am 95% sure they support the same exact voice/video as they are both using > the same libraries for it (AFAIK). In both cases in my testing so far video > crashes, btw.
I don't think pidgin supports audio/video for SIP/MSN. Also Empathy supports geolocation standard (disabled in karmic), file transfer, group chat for XMPP, look and feel customization with themes. > #2 is the only actually interesting reason for me (and possibly desktop > sharing, which is related). But I still wonder if they could have worked > with pidgin developers more. They are very active upstream and provide a > much more user oriented website (as well as Windows and Mac support so > easier to switch). Maybe make telepathy a plugin for pidgin instead of a > whole new app? From what I have heard pidgin developers are hard to work with. This is just hearsay, no personal experience. Also since pidgin targets three OS at the same time, the features they can implement on Linux without breaking it on WIndows/OSX are limited. I don't yet use empathy as my primary IM client but I plan to start using it once I upgrade my laptop to karmic. > Pidgin however is not being demoted from Main and is still going to be a > fully supported app. Think of it more as replacing Ekiga. The app itself is > more user friendly. Actually ekiga is also being replaced by Empathy (and not pidgin) in default install. Pidgin does not have SIP a/v support. Onkar -- ubuntu-in mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
