<div dir="ltr">And here's a nice blog post about the latest improvements to empathy-- <a href="http://blogs.gnome.org/xclaesse/2008/04/21/announce-empathy-0231/">http://blogs.gnome.org/xclaesse/2008/04/21/announce-empathy-0231/</a> I got that off the ubuntu forums thread which initially had bad reactions (due to people trying to outdated version) but then more people showed support towards the end <a href="http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=876847">http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=876847</a> <div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 3:55 AM, Danny Piccirillo <<a href="mailto:danny.piccirillo@ubuntu.com">danny.piccirillo@ubuntu.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div dir="ltr">Here's a great example i just saw on Digg: <a href="http://blog.ibeentoubuntu.com/2008/08/gnome-has-empathy-for-you.html" target="_blank">http://blog.ibeentoubuntu.com/2008/08/gnome-has-empathy-for-you.html</a> (and here's the digg link) <a href="http://digg.com/linux_unix/Gnome_has_Empathy_for_You" target="_blank">http://digg.com/linux_unix/Gnome_has_Empathy_for_You</a> Also, i think testing Empathy is a great idea. If it ends up being included in Ubuntu, i don't see any real problems. Anyone who is so attached to pidgin will simply install it. New users will be fine and happy with Empathy and all its benefits. Either way, we're just testing it! If we don't test it we could be missing out on something that would be really great. <div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="gmail_quote"> On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 7:05 PM, <<a href="mailto:andrew-ubuntu-devel@pileofstuff.org" target="_blank">andrew-ubuntu-devel@pileofstuff.org</a>> wrote: <blockquote style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;" class="gmail_quote"> <pre>I'm a bit confused about the desired outcome of this proposal. From the discussion, it seems to be an attempt to get more developers looking at a new messaging framework with the potential to do all sorts of weird and wonderful things. If so, then replacing Pidgin as the default IM client seems like a bad plan - I would expect devs to already have a favourite IM client, which they'll install unless they have a compelling reason to switch. On the other hand, I'd expect newbies to use the default because they don't know they have a choice. That would lead to a small developer base supporting a lot of users submitting bug reports about making Empathy a better IM client, which would take developer time away from being creative. Could you give some examples of existing Ubuntu applications that would benefit from integrating (lib)empathy? - Andrew </pre></blockquote></div> </div> </blockquote></div> </div>