Dominique, If using zypper from the Cli you'll need to run SuSEconfig afterwards, something the yast frontend does by default. I've been using empathy for a couple of months now without any issues so I'm all for switching. It's also the default client for Moblon, both upstream and the openSUSE/SLE variant so it makes sense. Regards, Andy -- Sent from a Nokia E71 Andrew Wafaa, openSUSE Member: FunkyPenguin -----Original Message----- From: Dominique Leuenberger Sent: 17/06/2009 15:00:36 Subject: Re: [opensuse-gnome] Switching to empathy as default IM client?

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On 6/17/2009 at 15:21, Vincent Untz <vuntz@opensuse.org> 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 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+help@opensuse.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+help@opensuse.org