Empathy sucks, the most poorly written IM app ever

[Florin Andrei]

Bug report, feel free to subscribe:

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=602966

So, let me get this straight: this is an IM application, it's for 
communication, yet it manages to hide the new messages so well that I'm 
almost always missing them.

When I receive a new message, I want a good visual clue as to what 
happened. Opening a new window *minimized* is not a good visual clue. 
This application is just, I don't know, the equivalent of a socially 
challenged person. Which is fine for, let's say, something running on 
the back-end, but it's totally unacceptable for a communication app.

Until they redesign it from scratch, I'm switching back to Pidgin.

-- 
Florin Andrei

http://florin.myip.org