Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-gnome (62 mails)

[Luis Medinas <lmedinas@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2009-06-17 at 15:21 +0200, Vincent Untz 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:
>
>  + VoIP that's working
>  + geolocalisation support (not yet in G:F, need to package a few things
>    first, but will be ready soon)
>  + support for adium themes
>  + desktop sharing: you'll be able to share your desktop with your
>    empathy contacts!
>
> Limitations that were blocking this in the past were:
>
>  + file transfer (implemented now)
>  + a bit buggy (should work fine now)
>  + (?)
>
> I'm not aware of any real downside. Opinions?

I'm against it since i found msn and irc protocols broken. I mostly use
im client for msn and the empathy backend for msn is a lot worse than
pidgin. Another feature missing on empathy is plugins that pidgin as a
lot. 
I'm aware that ubuntu[1] as switched but i found that they miss the most
important feature for an IM client, that is working with all the
supported protocols.

Luis


[1] -
http://pinstack.blogspot.com/2009/06/replace-pidgin-with-empathy-in-karmic.html

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