Hi Liam, I don't consider Pidgin to be obsolete. Rather not particularly good with the more modern technologies.
Telegram works fine in Pidgin and I use it daily
I personally had bad experience with the plugin, particularly with "groups" and it doesn't really compare to the official native Telegram app in the repo.
My copy of Pidgin is also connected to IRC, Facebook Messenger, Google Hangouts and Rocket.chat
It's not a great IRC client imo missing many of the features of hexchat or weechat. I thought that google chat and Facebook chat plugins were deprecated when the XMPP their support was dropped. Please let me know if new plugins exist because they are not in the default install of Pidgin. I did not know that it supported Rocket.chat. Is Pidgin the only tool to use that service (I'm not a SUSE employee)?
I request reconsideration of this, especially if it is to be replaced with a more limited, single-protocol client such as Hexchat.
I can leave this open to discussion of course, here and Factory ML. Best regards, Maurizio Galli (MauG) PS: sorry for the spam. My first email had its format all messed up. On Mon, Feb 25, 2019 at 6:33 PM Liam Proven <lproven@suse.cz> 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.
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