instant messaging

Jeremy Lincicome w0jrl1 at gmail.com
Tue Apr 10 07:52:24 UTC 2012


Peter,
Your best bet for now is Pidgin. You can install it by typing: sudo 
apt-get install pidgin
It works well for me.

Thanks,
Jeremy
On 04/09/2012 11:56 PM, Peter Vágner wrote:
> Hello,
> I now have ubuntu 12.04 installed on the usb drive and I am working with
> it occassionally at home to get me familiarize with stuff etc.
> What I have found a bit problematic is using empathy.
> Please don't see thiss as a criticism, I would ust like to see if
> anybody faces the same issues and where they need to be posted in order
> to address them.
> I am unable to read incoming chat messages using standard reading
> keyboard shortcuts I even don't know how to focus the field where the
> incoming chat messages are displayed. I can use flat review to read these.
> While closing conversation window the whole system freezes as the
> contacts list window gains the focus. I haven't yet managed to recover
> from this other than restarting the machine. While the system is frozen
> no audio comes through my soundcard, I've tried to restart orca blindly
> but I haven't managed.
> Empathy uses system's notifications to anounce incoming events.
> Sometimes I am missing these notifications because I am usually
> interupting them accidentally while doing something else. As a result I
> am unable to work out who I've just received a chat from. I have found a
> way around it I can see recent conversations in the history but I think
> this is verry inconvenient comparing it to the experience sighted people
> have. They can immediatelly recognize who has sent the recent message by
> looking at the contact list window. Is there a waay to have
> conversaation window open automatically when a new chat message comes in
> if conversation with that chat partner has not yet been started?
> I am unable to get the details about a contact in my list. Empathy
> displays status messages for each contact on the contact list if the
> contact has some. Can we get access to that?
> In the context menu for each contact in the list there is an item saying
> details. After activating it gnome-contacts application is shown however
> I have found this application verry inaccessible. I don't know how to
> see the contact's details. I caan add new contact but I don't know how
> to browse contacts and get their details accessible.
>
> I see this as a one huge problem. Instant messaging is verry problematic
> in the current state. Is there something I might be doing wrong or
> really this is not yet ready for a blind user?
>
> I am IM-ing a lot and I'm also excited about empathy's ability to do
> voice calling a feature I extremelly miss in windows however how empathy
> works in my setup is currently unnacceptable for me.
>
> If there is something I can do please let me know.
>
> Greetings
>
> Peter
>




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