[CC-ing ayatana, if this is wrong just tell me] Today I tried empathy on my karmic testing system. Here are the scores. The last part IS VERY IMPORTANT please read it too. Don't thake my comments as angry, I'm just in a hurry.
+1 The first time I launch it, it offers me to import accounts from pidgin. Very good -1 It crashes immediately later 0 I restart it and it does not crash, so that I can't report it -1 It does not allow me to open any kind of chat, it says something related to EMPATHY_IS_CONTACT(contact) failed +1 I close it, reopen, and it starts working. This should be 0, as it is already supposed to work, but I want to be nice on it. -1 I receive a notification that the IRC bot has recognised me. Please find a way to avoid this! Pidgin has a couple of plugins to handle the "rough corners of IRC" and at least identification MUST be done properly (it should not need any plugin in principle). THE IMPORTANT PART -1 It flashes the notification area. THIS IS FORBIDDEN. Update notifier can not do that. Why should empathy do that? This must be fixed. -1 It does NOT OPEN A POPUP on new messages. When the infamous update-notifier popup was decided, it was argued that pidgin already did that. I am a pop-up hater and the IM client is the only exception. In fact, for IM a pop-up may be desired. This is because if I start the IM client chances are I *want* to be disturbed and if a contact calls me I *want* to interact immediately. So ehm, I know it should not come from me but can we have the popup back? The last 2 behaviours SHOULD BE opt-in for those who love them, of course. TOTAL SCORE: -3 it can do better with very little effort :) Now testing it properly and will report bugs. Vincenzo _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
