Re: Pidgin Refresh

2012-10-29 Thread Shlomi Fish
Hi David, On Sat, 27 Oct 2012 15:44:54 +0100 David Woolley wrote: > Shlomi Fish wrote: > > > > > Skype is proprietary and 32-bit only and is now owned by Microsoft (so its > > future on Linux is uncertain). Emesene and Empathy are open-source as well, > > and > > They are also single service

Re: Pidgin Refresh

2012-10-27 Thread Shlomi Fish
Hi Kevin (and all)! Kevin, I'd like to thank you for writing this well-written, to-the-point, and comprehensives response to the original message. Well done, and keep up the good work. Looking forward to Pidgin 3. Regards, Shlomi Fish On Sat, 27 Oct 2012 14:23:06 -0500 Kevin Stange wr

Re: Pidgin Refresh

2012-10-27 Thread Tres Finocchiaro
I'd like to add to this discussion. Pidgin's popularity is affected directly by the popularity of in-browser messaging as well as the popularity cell phone SMS-style messaging. The UI is pretty fing good when compared to other GPL products. If you'd like it improved, please contribute cons

Fw: [Spam] Re: Pidgin Refresh

2012-10-27 Thread Shlomi Fish
Begin forwarded message: Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2012 20:19:53 +0100 From: "Dave Davenport" To: "'Shlomi Fish'" Subject: RE: [Spam] Re: Pidgin Refresh I tried Pidgin and passed it over in favour of Yahoo Messenger. The main reasons were that YM supported: Man

Re: Pidgin Refresh

2012-10-27 Thread Kevin Stange
On 10/27/2012 07:47 AM, Steven Ferreira wrote: > It should be rewritten and learn of his mistakes and perhaps follow new > design guidelines. In our development process, we rewrite parts of the application periodically as new features require it, though some code that has worked well hasn't been t

Re: Pidgin Refresh

2012-10-27 Thread Brian Morrison
On Sat, 27 Oct 2012 19:54:31 +0100 David Woolley wrote: > Brian Morrison wrote: > > On Sat, 27 Oct 2012 15:44:54 +0100 > > David Woolley wrote: > > > >> Unless a library offers a fundamental advantage, one > >> should stick with the tried and trusted ones. > > > > Except that your distro has

Re: Pidgin Refresh

2012-10-27 Thread David Woolley
Brian Morrison wrote: On Sat, 27 Oct 2012 15:44:54 +0100 David Woolley wrote: Unless a library offers a fundamental advantage, one should stick with the tried and trusted ones. Except that your distro has probably updated to new versions because they keep track of the latest upstream. The

Re: Pidgin Refresh

2012-10-27 Thread Brian Morrison
On Sat, 27 Oct 2012 15:44:54 +0100 David Woolley wrote: > Unless a library offers a fundamental advantage, one > should stick with the tried and trusted ones. Except that your distro has probably updated to new versions because they keep track of the latest upstream. -- Brian Morrison

Re: Pidgin Refresh

2012-10-27 Thread David Woolley
Shlomi Fish wrote: Skype is proprietary and 32-bit only and is now owned by Microsoft (so its future on Linux is uncertain). Emesene and Empathy are open-source as well, and They are also single service clients. It should use GTK3 and even follow a completely new design concept. I suppo

Re: Pidgin Refresh

2012-10-27 Thread Shlomi Fish
Hi Steven, On Sat, 27 Oct 2012 14:47:11 +0200 Steven Ferreira wrote: > Hi Pidgin Project, > > I'm a big fan of the Pidgin project but also of the elementary project too. What is the "elementary" project? This returns nothing: https://www.google.com/search?q=elementary%20instant%20messaging >