Intrepid+1 approaches-- is it too late to reconsider Empathy for inclusion?
I just tried the newest version of Empathy and things look a lot better! File transfers now work and it picks up my webcam/mic! On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 4:52 PM, Matthew Paul Thomas <m...@canonical.com>wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Laurent Bigonville wrote on 08/08/08 21:12: > >... > > 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]. > >... > > To help in this decision, I have evaluated the usability of Empathy and > Pidgin, and written up my findings. > <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/EmpathyVsPidginUsability> > In summary, I suggest that Ubuntu continue using Pidgin by default for > Intrepid, and that we reconsider Empathy for Intrepid+1. > > Empathy currently does a couple of big things Pidgin does not (audio and > video chat), and handles one big feature much better than Pidgin (chat > logging). But I found most features were more obvious in Pidgin, > especially account setup, which is important for anyone who will start > using IM in Intrepid. (And people who were already using either Empathy > or Pidgin in a previous version of Ubuntu will continue using the same > program in Intrepid anyway, regardless of our decision.) > > I found dozens of small learnability and efficiency problems in both > programs, and I have not yet had time to report them all as bugs. If > anyone would like to help out with this, especially in finding bugs that > have already been reported, I'd greatly appreciate it. (Wherever the > wiki page says "()", it needs a link to a bug report.) > > Cheers > - -- > Matthew Paul Thomas > http://mpt.net.nz/ > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > iD8DBQFIrJIj6PUxNfU6ecoRAgHOAKCMNPqz15lfIkvKSlOhvkhpDdcy3ACgueHC > DX06VJtu0JXEZHeibFY4gA8= > =9uzC > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > -- > ubuntu-desktop mailing list > ubuntu-desk...@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop >
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