Hi Liam,I don't consider Pidgin to be obsolete. Rather not
particularly good with the more modern technologies.> Telegram works
fine in Pidgin and I> use it dailyI personally had bad experience with
the plugin, particularly with "groups" and it doesn't really compare
to the official native Telegram app in the repo.> My copy of Pidgin is
also connected to IRC, Facebook Messenger, Google> Hangouts and
Rocket.chatIt's not a great IRC client imo missing many of the
features of hexchat or weechat.I thought that google chat and Facebook
chat plugins were deprecated when the XMPP their support was dropped.
Please let me know if new plugins exist because they are not in the
default install of Pidgin.I did not know that it supported Rocket
chat. Is Pidgin the only tool to use that service (I'm not a SUSE
employee)?> I request reconsideration of this, especially if it is to
be replaced> with a more limited, single-protocol client such as
Hexchat.I can leave this open to discussion of course, here and
Factory ML.Best regards
Maurizio Galli (MauG)
On Mon, Feb 25, 2019 at 6:33 PM Liam Proven
On 2/25/19 8:30 AM, Maurizio Galli wrote:
- remove pidgin (except for IRC, the protocols supported are no longer very popular. Users today mostly use Matrix, Telegram, Discord which are not properly supported by Pidgin).
You specifically mention Telegram. Telegram works fine in Pidgin and I use it daily. Its support from chat clients is why I favour Telegram over proprietary-protocol tools such as Whatsapp and Signal.
My copy of Pidgin is also connected to IRC, Facebook Messenger, Google Hangouts and Rocket.chat. It remains my primary messenger app here within SUSE. It is very far from obsolete.
I request reconsideration of this, especially if it is to be replaced with a more limited, single-protocol client such as Hexchat.
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