<div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2008/8/8 Laurent Bigonville <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bigon@ubuntu.com">bigon@ubuntu.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Hello everyone,<br> <br> Empathy[1] will be part of the upcoming GNOME 2.24 desktop.<br> The ubuntu desktop team considers using it instead of Pidgin for<br> intrepid as default IM client. If you are running intrepid, please give<br> empathy a test and report bugs to launchpad[2]. It may be installed by<br> running synaptic and installing the empathy package or by running<br> "sudo apt-get install empathy".<br> If you experiment a bug have a look at [3] before reporting.<br> </blockquote><div><br><br>With all due respect, that's a very, very bad idea. I didn't have very<br>high expectations when I first installed it to try it out.I think Pidgin<br>does an excellent job, and that it would take a very strong argument<br> for it to be replaced at all. However, I still felt disappointed. The GUI<br>felt awkward, it seemed to be missing a lot of features compared to <br>Pidgin. What surprised me the most, though, was that it wasn't even<br> in main! <br><br>I think the project is on the right track. It has some interesting<br>proposals, and in the future, I'm sure it's features will make it a good<br>replacement for Pidgin, but not yet. By all means, promote it to main <br> and make it available to the mainstream users, but _please_ don't<br>replace Pidgin with this in Intrepid. It's way too soon. <br><br>Jo-Erlend Schinstad<br></div><div> </div></div><br></div>