[ubuntu-uk] Empathy to replace Pidgin in Karmic?

[Dave Morley]

On Mon, 2009-06-22 at 14:28 +0100, Tony Arnold wrote:
> I read in the weekly news letter this week that there is a plan to
> replace Pidging with Empathy as the default IM client in Karmic. Where
> can I a) find the reasoning behind this and b) register my objection?
> 
> Regards,
> Tony.

As far as I can tell the main reasoning is the fact that they can lose 2
apps (ekiga and pidgin) thus saving space and also the empathy upstream
were working on bugs faster than pidgin were.

this should give you more idea
https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/desktop-karmic-messaging-and-communication-selection
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