Call for testing empathy

[Aurélien Naldi]

On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 10:12 PM, Laurent Bigonville <bigon at ubuntu.com> 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.

I just did my first attempt at voice communication with empathy.
This was using google talk accounts on both sides but the other side
was using ichat. I have a few contacts who get a mic icon next to
their names (gtalk users under windows), I get the same icon between
two empathy but it does not appear next to the ichat-using contact I
wanted to talk to. AFAIK, ichat is supposed to work with gtalk, so I
expected it to work with empathy as well. Did anyone here test this
combination or ichat/gtalk ?
No bug on empathy is reported yet, but if it works for someone else it
may just be something bad on my side.


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Aurélien Naldi