Congrats on karmic, looking forward lucid

[Bryan Quigley]

On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 3:08 AM, Sebastien Bacher <seb128 at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> Le jeudi 05 novembre 2009 à 23:37 +0530, Bryan Quigley a écrit :
>> Empathy is much more limiting than I initially thought, and far less
>> useful than promised. Maybe when telepathy is actually used by
>> anything else it will become useful
>
> Hi,
>
> Could you give some details on that statement? It should allow to use
> the same protocols, send files on standard ones and do video calls,
> which other feature should we work on next cycle?

Sure thing.

"more limiting":
  -specifically you can't connect to Google Apps, because the option
Domain don't appear in empathy - or.. I am still looking for the
option..
  -no plugins... (never really realized how many I used until I tried empathy)
  -more generally, so many fewer options everywhere, many have
complained how few options pidgin has, empathy takes this too far

  -pidgin is used by many people and on many other platforms and many
guides exist for setting it up

"Less than promised":
I think I just misunderstood, but I assumed that over any protocol
(especially open ones) between two empathys (of the same version) I
would be able to have voice/video/remote desktop.
To be fair pidgin has the same issue.

Specifically I assumed that when "Seeing users nearby" I could use
remote desktop.

"When telepathy is actually used":
At least one game/app of some sort allowing collaboration through
every protocol telepathy supports would have been an awesome demo, and
it would have made everyone understand why it's worthwhile.

Hope that helped,
Bryan