[Fwd: [Ayatana] Empathy is not in line with the much discussed guidelines]

[Scott Ritchie]

Mark Shuttleworth wrote:
> 
> FYI, comments on the Ayatana list about Empathy. Vincenzo, these are
> good feedback, best put in the hands of the desktop team who are
> integrating Empathy.
> 
> Mark
> 
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> 
> Subject:
> [Ayatana] Empathy is not in line with the much discussed guidelines
> From:
> Vincenzo Ciancia <ciancia at di.unipi.it>
> Date:
> Tue, 23 Jun 2009 17:30:34 +0200
> To:
> ubuntu-devel-discuss <ubuntu-devel-discuss at lists.ubuntu.com>
> 
> To:
> ubuntu-devel-discuss <ubuntu-devel-discuss at lists.ubuntu.com>
> CC:
> ayatana <ayatana at lists.launchpad.net>
> 
> 
> [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).
> 

Relatedly: Empathy cannot import IRC accounts from Pidgin properly.
See: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/empathy/+bug/388906

It may be largely solvable just by adding telepathy-idle to the seeds.

Thanks,
Scott Ritchie