On 10/19/2009 07:48 PM, Eric Hedekar wrote: > On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 4:22 PM, Cory K.<[email protected]> wrote: > >> I /thought/ I expressed my disapproval w/Ubuntu switching to Empathy >> over Pidgin early in the cycle but I mighta just ranted in IRC. :P >> >> In any case, the more I thought about asking Luke to switch it in our >> seeds I thought about whether it really makes sense for Studio? A distro >> that is *not* a desktop distro. >> >> So I propose we support/ship no client by default. Let the user apt-get >> whatever they like. >> >> Please chime in on this so we can act quickly. (as I'm sure we're >> totally up against a freeze or something) >> >> >> -Cory K. >> >> > IF there's still time, I'd support shipping Karmic without a > messenger. The only downside is that we conduct much of the Ubuntu > Studio work on IRC and shipping without any IRC client might send a > slight anti-participatory signal to users (just a slight one).
As Studio is and has been from it's inception meant to be used on purpose-built, stand-alone systems I just don't feel it fits default. > I do > feel though that if we do ship a messenger, there's no reason to stray > from the default Ubuntu client (empathy in this case). > We stray *heavily* from Ubuntu anymore. Generally, I don't think that should be used as an excuse. I also very strongly feel that Empathy is a step down from Pidgin feature-wise. So I say we axe a messenger for now. See if there's a backlash of any significance and look at this question again in Lucid in needed. -Cory K. -- Ubuntu-Studio-devel mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-devel
