Call for testing empathy

[Xavier Claessens]

On lun, 2008-08-11 at 13:43 +0100, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 08, 2008 at 10:12:57PM +0200, Laurent Bigonville wrote:
> > Hello everyone,
> > 
> > Empathy[1] will be part of the upcoming GNOME 2.24 desktop.
> > The ubuntu desktop team considers using it instead of Pidgin for
> > intrepid as default IM client. If you are running intrepid, please give
> > empathy a test and report bugs to launchpad[2]. It may be installed by
> > running synaptic and installing the empathy package or by running
> > "sudo apt-get install empathy".
> > If you experiment a bug have a look at [3] before reporting.
> > 
> > Empathy consists of a rich set of reusable instant messaging widgets,
> > and a GNOME client using those widgets. It uses Telepathy and Nokia's
> > Mission Control, and reuses Gossip's UI. The main goal is to permit
> > desktop integration by providing libempathy and libempathy-gtk
> > libraries. libempathy-gtk is a set of powerful widgets that can be
> > embeded into any GNOME application.
> > 
> > The Telepathy[4] project is building a unified framework for many
> > different kinds of real-time communications. It uses the D-Bus
> > messaging system to provide a simple interface for client applications,
> > allowing them to quickly take advantage of Telepathy's benefits.
> > Telepathy supports XMPP(jabber), MSN, ICQ, SIP, ...
> 
> I installed it and selected Applications->Internet->Empathy.  Nothing
> happened, except for the appearance of an icon in the notification area,
> which, if I were not familiar with this misbehavior from certain other
> applications, would have gone completely unnoticed.
> 
> Surely it should display a window the first time it is run?

Good catch, the gconf key was set to hide the contact list by default,
fixed in trunk.

Xavier Claessens.

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>  - mdz
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