Re: [opensuse-gnome] Removing a few apps from the default install

On Wed, 2010-09-22 at 09:30 -0600, Sankar P wrote:
> >>> On 9/22/2010 at 07:41 PM, in message <20100922141103.GY13247@vuntz.net>,
> Vincent Untz <vuntz@opensuse.org> wrote: 
> >  - xchat: we ship empathy with irc support by default.
> >    (I'm not 100% sure on this one)
> I personally would recommend to continue installing xchat. I know of a
> lot of people who like xchat for its simplicity and have years of IRC
> logs, even though there are alternatives like pidgin/empathy. 

And if those alternatives actually worked.  Pidgin supports HTTP proxy
servers, empathy not at all [or only via GNOME's lextremely lame proxy
server support - why can none of this software auto-detect like
browser's have been able to do since Netscape 4?  Sorry, major
irritant.]  They also don't support IRC over HTTP, which xchat does and
is widely used.  Also, IMO, the interface choice

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 used in empathy is also really bad for multi-party conversations.

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is *far and away* more readable.

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