On lun, 2008-08-11 at 13:43 +0100, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > On Fri, Aug 08, 2008 at 10:12:57PM +0200, Laurent Bigonville wrote: > > Hello everyone, > > > > Empathy[1] will be part of the upcoming GNOME 2.24 desktop. > > The ubuntu desktop team considers using it instead of Pidgin for > > intrepid as default IM client. If you are running intrepid, please give > > empathy a test and report bugs to launchpad[2]. It may be installed by > > running synaptic and installing the empathy package or by running > > "sudo apt-get install empathy". > > If you experiment a bug have a look at [3] before reporting. > > > > Empathy consists of a rich set of reusable instant messaging widgets, > > and a GNOME client using those widgets. It uses Telepathy and Nokia's > > Mission Control, and reuses Gossip's UI. The main goal is to permit > > desktop integration by providing libempathy and libempathy-gtk > > libraries. libempathy-gtk is a set of powerful widgets that can be > > embeded into any GNOME application. > > > > The Telepathy[4] project is building a unified framework for many > > different kinds of real-time communications. It uses the D-Bus > > messaging system to provide a simple interface for client applications, > > allowing them to quickly take advantage of Telepathy's benefits. > > Telepathy supports XMPP(jabber), MSN, ICQ, SIP, ... > > I installed it and selected Applications->Internet->Empathy. Nothing > happened, except for the appearance of an icon in the notification area, > which, if I were not familiar with this misbehavior from certain other > applications, would have gone completely unnoticed. > > Surely it should display a window the first time it is run?
Good catch, the gconf key was set to hide the contact list by default, fixed in trunk. Xavier Claessens. > -- > - mdz > -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
