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[Peteris Krisjanis]

2009/10/11 Vincenzo Ciancia <ciancia at di.unipi.it>:
> Il 10/10/2009 21:16, Peteris Krisjanis ha scritto:
>>
>> Sorry, I can't agree more either. You don't even offer your reasoning
>> why there is no strong reasons. For me, integrity, visual style, etc.
>> makes it much better and welcome in Ubuntu desktop than Pidgin. And it
>> has been a class example why we do evaluate apps and why they are
>> given second chance if they improve as Empathy did.
>
> I am pointing out that empathy at the moment is widely broken, and none of
> the feature it promises are there. I don't think you can install ubuntu on a
> fresh computer and be sure voice calls with empathy will work at all.
> I don't think you can really use empathy for IRC. I don't think empathy will
> imports accounts from pidgin in a reliable way.
>
> How do I know these things, is because I tried it. When it'll be ready, it
> will be a pleasure to use it. I am not saying distributors should "resist"
> to change.

Really? IRC works, I used Empathy to connect to freenode for last two
weeks. Sure, there are rough edges, but it is very usable without big
effort. About calls - I have done them in the past (using Empathy from
PPA about half a year ago) and they worked (problems where if you use
different input than default (USB headset for example), PA switched
back to default input all the time.). I haven't tried now though, but
I really doubt that situation generally is worse than before :)

Sorry, I simply don't see it as "wildely broken". It has bugs as any
new software, but it moves in right direction.

Cheers,
Peter.