Call for testing empathy

[Philip Wyett]

On Fri, 2008-08-08 at 22:12 +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, ...
> 
> Laurent Bigonville
> 
> [1] http://live.gnome.org/Empathy
> [2] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/empathy
> [3] http://live.gnome.org/Empathy/Debugging
> [4] http://telepathy.freedesktop.org/
> 

Hi,

Are you looking for reports and feedback for intrepid or is input for
those running it on hardy welcome?

Regards

Phil
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