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Re: [opensuse-gnome] Switching to empathy as default IM client?
  • From: "Dominique Leuenberger" <Dominique.Leuenberger@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 16:00:36 +0200
  • Message-id: <4A3913240200002900019E87@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
On 6/17/2009 at 15:21, Vincent Untz <vuntz@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi,

I'd like to discuss using empathy as the default IM client again :-)
Last time, we didn't make the switch because it was not totally ready.
But lots of work has happened in the meantime and empathy has some cool
new features:
Limitations that were blocking this in the past were:

+ file transfer (implemented now)
+ a bit buggy (should work fine now)
+ (?)

You motivated me to test it again... so
$ sudo zypper in empathy

$ empathy

Starts up.. first thing I see: the tray icon is just a square, gray blob...
bleh.
Let's try to create an account:
Edit, Accounts, adding my groupwise messenger account. enabling it... waiting
... waiting...

oh... did I mention waiting?

No connection apparently is happening.. at least it does not do anything.

Did I do anything crucial wrong? So far I have to use kopete as IM. Pidgin
crashe{s,d} on incoming GW messages (did not test for a while. so this
might be solved). empathy.. well, see above.

Dominique
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