Re: [ubuntu-uk] Empathy to replace Pidgin in Karmic?
Tony Arnold wrote: Alan, Alan Pope wrote: 2009/6/22 Dave Morley davm...@davmor2.co.uk: 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 Easy video calling is a very compelling argument. Indeed. I was going to register objections without having seen what Empathy does, and it does look interesting. A colleague just told me of a plugin for Pidgin to do Facebook chat and I was worried that might be something lost with Empathy. Even if they do switch to empathy by default and the facebook chat hack plugin hasn't been ported to it yet, you could still install pidgin from synaptic and then install the facebook chat plugin. I like pidgin and probably won't switch to empathy in a hurry, but so long as pidgin continues to be easily available and empathy doesn't *really* suck, I don't care. Tim -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Empathy to replace Pidgin in Karmic?
Hi Tony, 2009/6/22 Tony Arnold tony.arn...@manchester.ac.uk: 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 From the link in the UWN:- https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter/Issue147#Empathy%20to%20replace%20Pidgin%20in%20Karmic%20Koala Links to:- https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DesktopTeam/Specs/Karmic/MessagingAndCommunicationSelection and b) register my objection? https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss Cheers, Al. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Empathy to replace Pidgin in Karmic?
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 -- Seek That Thy Might Know http://www.davmor2.co.uk signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Empathy to replace Pidgin in Karmic?
2009/6/22 Dave Morley davm...@davmor2.co.uk: 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 Easy video calling is a very compelling argument. Cheers, Al. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Empathy to replace Pidgin in Karmic?
Alan, Alan Pope wrote: 2009/6/22 Dave Morley davm...@davmor2.co.uk: 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 Easy video calling is a very compelling argument. Indeed. I was going to register objections without having seen what Empathy does, and it does look interesting. A colleague just told me of a plugin for Pidgin to do Facebook chat and I was worried that might be something lost with Empathy. Regards, Tony. -- Tony Arnold,Tel: +44 (0) 161 275 6093 Head of IT Security,Fax: +44 (0) 870 136 1004 University of Manchester, Mob: +44 (0) 773 330 0039 Manchester M13 9PL. Email: tony.arn...@manchester.ac.uk -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
