Empathy Chat Logging

[Brian Neltner]

Dear Ubuntu Developers,

I'm not sure if this is the correct place to send this request, but the
website says it is for feature and policy discussions.

Basically, I just wanted to say that the inability to turn off
conversation logging in Empathy is an application killer for me. I think
that a lot of people would prefer not to use Empathy until it allows for
one's conversations to not be automatically logged by default.

It's not a huge deal, as I'll just continue using Pidgin, but I wanted
to throw in a vote for that change. The client looks nice otherwise, but
I value my privacy too much to use it in its current state. I also do
not use unencrypted messaging, so Empathy's refusal to support
off-the-record is difficult to accept. I agree that it would be great if
encryption was done natively in the protocol, but that leaves
privacy-conscious users in the dark until AIM, Yahoo, MSN, GChat, etc
all decide to implement it.

Brian