[Foresight-devel] Pidgin or empathy as default in FL

2009-09-15 Thread Tomas Forsman
more and more users starting to look at empathy as their client for msn,jabber and so on. Empathy handles now video and voice chats too, but both ends needs to have either webcam or mic to make it work (pidgin is the same) Empathy can handle irc too. But missing other colors if someone writes you

[Foresight-devel] Re: Pidgin or empathy as default in FL

2009-09-15 Thread Paul Cutler
I would recommend switching to Empathy for a few of reasons: * Maturity - After being added as an official GNOME Desktop module (which is also a reason in and of itself), in the last year it's had a ton of improvements and bug features. The new webcam and voice calling support for multiple protoc

[Foresight-devel] Re: Pidgin or empathy as default in FL

2009-09-15 Thread Alexandre Franke
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 5:51 PM, Tomas Forsman wrote: > Empathy handles now video and voice chats too, but both ends needs to > have either webcam or mic to make it work (pidgin is the same) >From the GNOME 2.28 release notes: "if a contact does not have video, their avatar will be displayed". >

[Foresight-devel] Re: Pidgin or empathy as default in FL

2009-09-15 Thread Erik Southworth
Seems to be missing Yahoo support ___ Foresight-devel mailing list Foresight-devel@lists.rpath.org http://lists.rpath.org/mailman/listinfo/foresight-devel

[Foresight-devel] Re: Pidgin or empathy as default in FL

2009-09-15 Thread Alexandru Bucur
It has yahoo support, (in ubuntu at least). My biggest gripe is that It doesn't have full smiley support :D. On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 10:06 PM, Erik Southworth wrote: > Seems to be missing Yahoo support > ___ > Foresight-devel mailing list > Foresigh

[Foresight-devel] Re: Pidgin or empathy as default in FL

2009-09-15 Thread Erik Southworth
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 3:08 PM, Alexandru Bucur wrote: > It has yahoo support, (in ubuntu at least). > My biggest gripe is that It doesn't have full smiley support :D. > The Yahoo account settings page is blank. I can only access the ``Accounts`` panel after restarting the app; and the window d

[Foresight-devel] Re: Pidgin or empathy as default in FL

2009-09-15 Thread Tomas Forsman
D > > > Also need to have the windows open to stay in channels, if you close > > them you will leave the channel. > > Isn't it the same for Pidgin? > No, you can choose: stay connected even when closed window. I love that feature. About mentioned nickname and becomes red, would like to see that

[Foresight-devel] Re: Pidgin or empathy as default in FL

2009-09-15 Thread Tomas Forsman
Wrote down some issues for empathy at: https://issues.foresightlinux.org/browse/FL-2244 latest update fixed google talk account and saving irc favorite channels now. sudo conary update group-telepathy should give you 2.27.92 version in fl:2-devel now. _