Re: Call for testing empathy

2008-08-20 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Laurent Bigonville wrote on 08/08/08 21:12: >... > Empathy[1] will be part of the upcoming GNOME 2.24 desktop. > The ubuntu desktop team considers using it instead of Pidgin for > intrepid as default IM client. If you are running intrepid, please give

Re: Call for testing empathy

2008-08-20 Thread Xavier Claessens
On mar, 2008-08-19 at 23:12 +0200, Duncan Lithgow wrote: > On Tue, 2008-08-19 at 11:33 -0400, Bryan Quigley wrote: > > > It appears to me that Empathy could eventually replace both Pidgin and > > Ekiga. I don't currently use Ekiga, but can anyone tell me how close > > Empathy is to being comparab

Re: Call for testing empathy

2008-08-20 Thread Mario Limonciello
Something else that I haven't seen brought up yet is a migration path to empathy. I've seen indications that it uses a purple backend (above), so will all pidgin settings just translate over? It that above indication was incorrect, is there a tool for doing the migration? If not, I would expect

Re: Intuitive "Popup" Scrollbars

2008-08-20 Thread Vadim Peretokin
I gave this a try, and I love it. The normal functionality of clicking on the scrolling thing and moving it is preserved, along with using the scrollwheel in the scrollbar, so no usability is lost. I see this as a really big hit with touchscreen devices also. Being able to place the finger anywher

Re: Call for testing empathy

2008-08-20 Thread Duncan Lithgow
On Tue, 2008-08-19 at 11:33 -0400, Bryan Quigley wrote: > It appears to me that Empathy could eventually replace both Pidgin and > Ekiga. I don't currently use Ekiga, but can anyone tell me how close > Empathy is to being comparable? The Ekiga devs who I spoke to said that a.) it's not ready for

Re: Call for testing empathy

2008-08-20 Thread Duncan Lithgow
On Tue, 2008-08-19 at 14:31 +0200, Jo-Erlend Schinstad wrote: > > I think the project is on the right track. It has some interesting > proposals, and in the future, I'm sure it's features will make it a > good > replacement for Pidgin, but not yet. By all means, promote it to main > and make it

Re: Call for testing empathy

2008-08-20 Thread Guillaume Desmottes
Le mercredi 20 août 2008 à 01:37 -0400, Adam Petaccia a écrit : > On Tue, 2008-08-19 at 11:12 +0200, Guillaume Desmottes wrote: > > Le lundi 18 août 2008 à 11:05 -0500, Mario Limonciello a écrit : > > > Something else that I haven't seen brought up yet is a migration path > > > to empathy. I've se