On Mon, 2019-02-25 at 11:33 +0100, Liam Proven wrote:
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.
Please read again, Maurizio specifically said it won't be gone, we just don't want to install it by default anymore and I for one welcome that. (Also thanks for getting rid of gnome-games) -- Marcel Kühlhorn Have a lot of fun!