For instant messaging via Telepathy, Unity uses the default frontend offered by Empathy. Empathy has 2 main types of windows: * Contact List * Conversation
Audio/Video conversations are improving, their windows represent a subtype of Conversation window. Hopefully enough, A/V conversations can sooner or later be incorporated into the text-chat Conversation window, which would make Instant Messaging and VoiP much simpler to conceive on a UI design level. The Unity Launcher for Empathy is curretly misleading. Empathy is a technology, more like a frontend for 2 applications: 1) Live Contact List 2) Instant Conversation Dialog The Launcher itself is shaped as a speech bubble, which indicates something related to chat.. This does not indicate, that i'm really about to open a Contact List. Confusing. I'd suggest the following: Offer seperate Launchers for Contact List and Conversation Windows respectively. The Conversation Window Launcher icon will be that friendly chat-bubble, while the Contact List Launcher icon will be a symbolic illustration indicating "Contacts", or perhaps a transitional solution: the Telepathy logo itself. greetz ;)
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