Feature changed by: Vincent Untz (vuntz) Feature #308281, revision 12 Title: Empathy as default IM client openSUSE-11.3: Done Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Udaya Kumar (ukumars) Description: Empathy has good support for voice chat, which happens to be missing in Linux for long time. Have tried it on ubuntu and have liked it. I like it to be part of openSUSE release as default IM client. I don't like to switch to another Linux flavor, as openSUSE is more comfortable to use and simpler to manage. Discussion: #1: Luis Medinas (lmedinas) (2010-01-13 20:15:19) Empathy is blseed by GNOME and it's moving really fast in terms of features and bug fixes. It contains almost all features presented in pidgin. So i think this should be done. #2: Andreas Jaeger (a_jaeger) (2010-03-02 14:07:56) Something for the GNOME team to discuss and decide. Vincent, will you bring this up? #3: Vincent Untz (vuntz) (2010-04-07 23:15:20) I filed https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=594593 to make this happen. #4: Jan Engelhardt (jengelh) (2010-04-10 12:01:51) How far does the removal of pidgin go? I don't mind it being gone from the GNOME stack, but I certainly do mind if it's gone from the base repo. #5: Vincent Untz (vuntz) (2010-04-10 12:44:06) (reply to #4) It's just a change in the default install. Pidgin will still be available, obviously. #6: Vincent Untz (vuntz) (2010-06-03 16:05:38) The change in the patterns was done. #7: Markus K (kamikazow) (2010-06-04 04:26:37) (reply to #6) This is an unpopular move. The current score is -2. Why was it done anyway? + #8: Vincent Untz (vuntz) (2010-06-04 10:57:03) (reply to #7) + Because we think it's the right thing: it has a better UI, and it has + some nice features like video chat. Also, pidgin is still there and + people can use it. + + And I wouldn't call -2 unpopular; -300 might be unpopular (and even in + such a case, I think it could not be an indicator of the true feeling + of people since it's possible only people who don't like it would + vote). -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/308281