So there's going to be Empathy, Chat and Polari?

Each with a different use-case?

Maybe taking the lead from Google on their Hangouts for Everything
(including MMS and SMS) might be a better route?

Happy to help tho
- Nick
On 11 Oct 2013 10:35, "David Woodhouse" <dw...@infradead.org> wrote:

> On Fri, 2013-10-11 at 10:25 +0100, Ross Burton wrote:
> > Or be a better alternative to Empathy for rooms, leaving Empathy (or
> > eventually, Contacts + Shell, I guess) for IM.
>
> That seems like confusing balkanisation to me. So if I'm having a
> conversation in an IRC channel with someone, and we decide to take it
> *off* the channel to private messages, it suddenly ends up in a
> different app altogether?
>
> Or would the differentiation be on the *protocol* it uses? Which doesn't
> sound like a very user-friendly idea either. And many "IM" protocols
> actually support group chats or meetings too...
>
> And if there's an IRC channel with only two people in, what then? :)
>
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>
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