Re: Call for testing empathy

2008-08-10 Thread Alexander Jones
Use this archive if you can't test on Intrepid. https://launchpad.net/~telepathy/+archive 2008/8/10 Philip Wyett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Sun, 2008-08-10 at 15:38 +0100, Alexander Jones wrote: >> 2008/8/10 Philip Wyett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> > The argument Luke puts forward for keeping pidgin by

Re: Call for testing empathy

2008-08-10 Thread Philip Wyett
On Sun, 2008-08-10 at 15:38 +0100, Alexander Jones wrote: > 2008/8/10 Philip Wyett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > The argument Luke puts forward for keeping pidgin by default for the > > time being I totally agree with. I have installed empathy under hardy > > and it connects to nothing by default but as

Re: Call for testing empathy

2008-08-10 Thread Alexander Jones
There is already an "official" PPA tracking Empathy development. https://launchpad.net/~telepathy/+archive 2008/8/10 Dane Mutters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hello. > > I've been following along with this empathy discussion, and for my own > testing purposes have made some hardy packages for empathy (a

Re: Call for testing empathy

2008-08-10 Thread Dane Mutters
Hello. I've been following along with this empathy discussion, and for my own testing purposes have made some hardy packages for empathy (and all its deps that aren't found in the repos). I would like to upload them to my ppa so that others who would like to test empathy can do so. I have a prob

Re: Call for testing empathy

2008-08-10 Thread Jorge O. Castro
On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 5:12 PM, Laurent Bigonville <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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. Hi everyone, I wanted to throw in my 2 cents since I've b

Re: Call for testing empathy

2008-08-10 Thread Andrew Sayers
I'm a bit confused about the desired outcome of this proposal. From the discussion, it seems to be an attempt to get more developers looking at a new messaging framework with the potential to do all sorts of weird and wonderful things. If so, then replacing Pidgin as the default IM client seems l

Re: Call for testing empathy

2008-08-10 Thread Nergar
I think the answer on this one is pretty simple. We should ship the package that provides the best functionality for _new_ users. We want newcomers to enjoy their experience, if empathy provides that, we have to ship it. There is only one first impression. Everyone else can apt-get pidgin or empat

Re: Call for testing empathy

2008-08-10 Thread Laurent Bigonville
On Sun, 10 Aug 2008 18:02:35 +0200 "Xavier Claessens" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2008/8/10 Philip Wyett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > * butterfly for msn does not work. > > You need pymsn 0.3.3 which is not in hardy but in intrepid Hardy is awaiting a SRU for pymsn. The packages in the telepathy

Re: Call for testing empathy

2008-08-10 Thread Andrew Sayers
Xavier Claessens wrote: > I doubt the contest is meaningful for packages installed by default... > Having pidgin/ekiga installed does not mean actually using it. Or am I > wrong? > > Xavier Claessens. You'd be right if I referenced the list sorted by the number of people who installed the package

Re: Call for testing empathy

2008-08-10 Thread Xavier Claessens
2008/8/10 Philip Wyett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > The argument Luke puts forward for keeping pidgin by default for the > time being I totally agree with. I have installed empathy under hardy > and it connects to nothing by default but asks you to install > 'backends'. I know it uses telepathy so knew w

Re: Call for testing empathy

2008-08-10 Thread Xavier Claessens
I doubt the contest is meaningful for packages installed by default... Having pidgin/ekiga installed does not mean actually using it. Or am I wrong? Xavier Claessens. 2008/8/10 Andrew Sayers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Alexander Jones wrote: > > 2008/8/10 Luke L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> Pidgin works

Re: Call for testing empathy

2008-08-10 Thread Xavier Claessens
2008/8/10 Luke L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I'm skeptical about this. I personally have never heard of this software > before this email. Pidgin is cross-platform and elegant, easy to use, and > extensible. Also, (I know this is hearsay) I've heard people mention the > idea of removing EKIGA as not eno

Re: Call for testing empathy

2008-08-10 Thread Xavier Claessens
2008/8/9 Timo Jyrinki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > 2008/8/9 Alexander Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Voice and video, period. > > By the time Empathy starts to reach Pidgin stability and feature > parity otherwise, Pidgin probably has those too. Though it has been > long in the making, the current V&V br

Re: Call for testing empathy

2008-08-10 Thread Xavier Claessens
So far I enabled only tested protocols but the way to enable/test other protocol is not documented. Next version of empathy will provide .profile file for every protocol supported by libpurple. Xavier Claessens. 2008/8/9 Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > 2008/8/8 Laurent Bigonville

Re: Call for testing empathy

2008-08-10 Thread Alexander Jones
2008/8/10 Philip Wyett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > The argument Luke puts forward for keeping pidgin by default for the > time being I totally agree with. I have installed empathy under hardy > and it connects to nothing by default but asks you to install > 'backends'. I know it uses telepathy so knew w

Re: Call for testing empathy

2008-08-10 Thread Philip Wyett
On Sun, 2008-08-10 at 02:12 -0500, Luke L wrote: > I'm skeptical about this. I personally have never heard of this > software before this email. Pidgin is cross-platform and elegant, easy > to use, and extensible. Also, (I know this is hearsay) I've heard > people mention the idea of removing EKIGA

Re: Call for testing empathy

2008-08-10 Thread Andrew Sayers
Alexander Jones wrote: > 2008/8/10 Luke L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> Pidgin works terrificly, and is stable. Ekiga covers the rest. This would be >> a pretty big switch in terms of volume of users, and Intrepid is only 2.5 >> months away. I believe this should be put on hold. > > Saying that Ekiga me

Re: Call for testing empathy

2008-08-10 Thread Alexander Jones
2008/8/10 Luke L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I'm skeptical about this. I personally have never heard of this software > before this email. Pidgin is cross-platform and elegant, easy to use, and > extensible. Also, (I know this is hearsay) I've heard people mention the > idea of removing EKIGA as not eno

Re: Buggy Exaile in Hardy

2008-08-10 Thread Luke L
I've experienced the same problem. Updating to 0.2.13 would also fix the memory leak, wouldn't it? Don't quote me on that, but I believe it would. It's late for me.. x_x On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 2:54 PM, Przemysław Kulczycki < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Currently Hardy ships Exaile 0.2.11 (in uni

Re: Call for testing empathy

2008-08-10 Thread Luke L
I'm skeptical about this. I personally have never heard of this software before this email. Pidgin is cross-platform and elegant, easy to use, and extensible. Also, (I know this is hearsay) I've heard people mention the idea of removing EKIGA as not enough people use it to warrant it being a defaul