On Dec 31, 2007 11:27 PM, Jonathan Musther <<a href="mailto:jmusther@gmail.com">jmusther@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;" class="gmail_quote">
I
think it's used widely. And if I think it is, and you think it isn't,
then sensible conclusion to draw is that in some circles it's used
widely, in others it's not. so overall it's used quite a bit. I have
to say I don't know anybody (business owners aside) that uses a finance
manager on their PC - again, that doesn't mean it's not used, but
certainly in my experience it's used less often than a VOIP service.
<br></blockquote><br>I don't know anybody that uses VOIP, but I know several people who use Quicken regularly to manage their personal finances. Again, the conclusion is that it depends on the type of user. Barring any definite usage statistics (which I don't think we have), we have a few choices. If the new compression format makes it into Hardy, we should have lots of room to add Gnucash and keep Ekiga. If other stuff (like the multiple themes that are apparently going to be in Hardy) needs more space, perhaps Ekiga should be first on the chopping block.
<br><br>If it does come down to a choice between the two, I think that Gnucash should make it in simply because even if Ekiga is installed by default, too many users will ignore it and install Skype. While this isn't good because Skype is closed, it is what most people are using. Ideally we'd include a multi-format client that can connect to Skype and to open channels (like Pidgin can connect to MSN, Yahoo, etc.) but as far as I know there isn't one.
<br><br>Evan<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Dec 31, 2007 11:27 PM, Jonathan Musther <<a href="mailto:jmusther@gmail.com">jmusther@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I think it's used widely. And if I think it is, and you think it isn't, then sensible conclusion to draw is that in some circles it's used widely, in others it's not. so overall it's used quite a bit. I have to say I don't know anybody (business owners aside) that uses a finance manager on their PC - again, that doesn't mean it's not used, but certainly in my experience it's used less often than a VOIP service.
<br><br>And yes, the VOIP tool which is vastly more popular than any other is skype - but I don't think we should include it. Ideally what we need to include is a skype-ish tool, something like wengo (I've not tried wengo). I've never had any success using ekiga, never.
<br><br>Of course the problem with migrating people from skype to other things is that they know people on skype. It's like msn messenger, how many people are linux/FOSS users and use something like pidgin to access an msn account for instant messaging?
<br><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="Ih2E3d">On Jan 1, 2008 5:09 PM, Evan <<a href="mailto:eapache@gmail.com" target="_blank">eapache@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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I'm just saying that it isn't used widely enough to be included in the cd. Certainly leave it in main, but I don't think voip in general is popular enough (yet) to include a client. A finance manager like Gnucash is much more likely to be used by the default user.
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