Re: Call for testing empathy

2009-01-09 Thread Danny Piccirillo
IRC has been supported for while. You need telepathy-idle installed On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 2:51 AM, Bryan Quigley gqu...@gmail.com wrote: Did they add IRC support? We really want to have an IRC client by default (Pidgin is one). On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 2:41 AM, Danny Piccirillo

Re: Call for testing empathy

2009-01-08 Thread Danny Piccirillo
Intrepid+1 approaches-- is it too late to reconsider Empathy for inclusion? I just tried the newest version of Empathy and things look a lot better! File transfers now work and it picks up my webcam/mic! On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 4:52 PM, Matthew Paul Thomas m...@canonical.comwrote: -BEGIN

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 seen

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 comparable?

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

2008-08-19 Thread Guillaume Desmottes
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 seen indications that it uses a purple backend (above), so will all pidgin settings just translate over? It that above indication was

Re: Call for testing empathy

2008-08-19 Thread (``-_-´´) -- Fernando
Olá Scott e a todos. On Monday 18 August 2008 12:08:25 Scott James Remnant wrote: I've made a tweak to the layout of the Empathy chat window. The tabs were filling the entire top of the window, which: If anyone has any particularly strong feelings either way, please let me know - otherwise if

Re: Call for testing empathy

2008-08-19 Thread Jo-Erlend Schinstad
2008/8/8 Laurent Bigonville [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello everyone, 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 empathy a test and report bugs

Re: Call for testing empathy

2008-08-19 Thread Bryan Quigley
I liked the interface slightly more than pidgin's (the away icons rock). But agree, that it might be to quick, Pidgin has a lot of functionality. One that I use (and currently is shipping by default) is off the record messaging. It appears to me that Empathy could eventually replace both Pidgin

Re: Call for testing empathy

2008-08-19 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

2008-08-19 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

2008-08-19 Thread Adam Petaccia
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 seen indications that it uses a purple backend (above), so will all pidgin

Re: Call for testing empathy

2008-08-18 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Fri, 2008-08-08 at 22:12 +0200, Laurent Bigonville 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. If you are running intrepid, please give empathy a test and report bugs to

Re: Call for testing empathy

2008-08-18 Thread Brett Alton
I would personally be worried switching from one program to the next all the time. A little while back Gaim was renamed to Pidgin, which I'm sure confused a couple users. Although they were the exact same program, it would have taken a couple minutes (or even a half an hour on the Internet for

Re: Call for testing empathy

2008-08-18 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: Call for testing empathy

2008-08-18 Thread Sebastien Bacher
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 seen indications that it uses a purple backend (above), so will all pidgin settings just translate over? There is no migration required,

Re: Call for testing empathy

2008-08-15 Thread Alexander Jones
Reasonably fair point. It's just that that WOULD have been Hardy if there wasn't a packaging oopsy wrt. connection manager dependencies. -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at:

Re: Call for testing empathy

2008-08-15 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 05:25:05PM -0400, Danny Piccirillo wrote: Who makes the final call on the inclusion of Empathy in Intrepid? The desktop team, or if they can't decide, the technical board can help advise. Where does that discussion happen? ubuntu-desktop@, #ubuntu-desktop, desktop team

Re: Call for testing empathy

2008-08-14 Thread Luke L
Here's my other thought: I personally don't have Intrepid to test this software out. Hardy doesn't have a functioning version (without going into PPA and manual setup, which is not what most people will do). Jumping straight into having it replace Pidgin might be hasty. Consider getting a stable

Re: Call for testing empathy

2008-08-14 Thread Markus Hitter
Am 14.08.2008 um 17:03 schrieb Luke L: Here's my other thought: I personally don't have Intrepid to test this software out. Hardy doesn't have a functioning version (without going into PPA and manual setup, which is not what most people will do). Jumping straight into having it replace

Re: Call for testing empathy

2008-08-13 Thread Guillaume Desmottes
Le mercredi 13 août 2008 à 01:07 +0200, Aurélien Naldi a écrit : I get the same icon between two empathy but it does not appear next to the ichat-using contact I wanted to talk to. AFAIK, ichat is supposed to work with gtalk, so I expected it to work with empathy as well. No, iChat doesn't

Re: Call for testing empathy

2008-08-13 Thread Danny Piccirillo
Who makes the final call on the inclusion of Empathy in Intrepid? Where does that discussion happen? -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss

Re: Call for testing empathy

2008-08-12 Thread Xavier Claessens
What do you mean by merging? The code is totally different, it's impossible to merge together. Xavier Claessens On mar, 2008-08-12 at 08:16 +0100, Andrew Sayers wrote: How about merging with Ekiga? That would give you more developers and a simple route towards being included in the default

Re: Call for testing empathy

2008-08-12 Thread Andrew Sayers
Xavier Claessens wrote: What do you mean by merging? The code is totally different, it's impossible to merge together. Xavier Claessens I'm talking more about merging the projects than the codebases - finding a way that you can all work on a single project that would satisfy users and

Re: Call for testing empathy

2008-08-12 Thread Xavier Claessens
On mar, 2008-08-12 at 11:50 +0100, Andrew Sayers wrote: Xavier Claessens wrote: What do you mean by merging? The code is totally different, it's impossible to merge together. Xavier Claessens I'm talking more about merging the projects than the codebases - finding a way that you can

Re: Call for testing empathy

2008-08-12 Thread (``-_-´´) -- Fernando
Olá Laurent e a todos. I have testing it today. For now, 2 small things: There no window opening when a new conversation comes (even as an option) and i cant change the name of my accounts. Should I file this as bugs? -- BUGabundo :o) (``-_-´´) http://Ubuntu.BUGabundo.net Linux user

Re: Call for testing empathy

2008-08-12 Thread Sebastien Bacher
Le mardi 12 août 2008 à 18:09 +0100, (``-_-´´) -- Fernando a écrit : Olá Laurent e a todos. I have testing it today. For now, 2 small things: There no window opening when a new conversation comes (even as an option) and i cant change the name of my accounts. Should I file this as bugs?

Re: Call for testing empathy

2008-08-12 Thread Laurent Bigonville
On Sat, 9 Aug 2008 16:55:29 +0200 Marcin ‘Qrczak’ Kowalczyk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2008/8/8 Laurent Bigonville [EMAIL PROTECTED]: The ubuntu desktop team considers using it instead of Pidgin for intrepid as default IM client. Please not, until Empathy supports protocols that Pidgin

Re: Call for testing empathy

2008-08-12 Thread Aurélien Naldi
On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 10:12 PM, Laurent Bigonville [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello everyone, 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

2008-08-11 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Fri, Aug 08, 2008 at 10:12:57PM +0200, Laurent Bigonville wrote: Hello everyone, 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 empathy a

Re: Call for testing empathy

2008-08-11 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 11:26:56AM -0700, Dane Mutters wrote: 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

Re: Call for testing empathy

2008-08-11 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Sun, 2008-08-10 at 19:05 +0100, Andrew Sayers wrote: Could you give some examples of existing Ubuntu applications that would benefit from integrating (lib)empathy? Jokosher: you could add a track, select a contact, and when you press record - it opens a voice connection to them via IM and

Re: Call for testing empathy

2008-08-11 Thread Dane Mutters
You're uploading the wrong file; you want empathy_..._source.changes. -- - mdz Thanks! I'll give that a shot. --Dane -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at:

Re: Call for testing empathy

2008-08-11 Thread Vincenzo Ciancia
Il giorno dom, 10/08/2008 alle 13.55 +0100, Alexander Jones ha scritto: Saying that Ekiga meets the VoVi needs of Pidgin users is pretty ridiculous. It's SIP for a start, nobody uses SIP, and for the few that do, TELEPATHY SUPPORTS SIP TOO! It took a long time for ekiga to work properly. I

Re: Call for testing empathy

2008-08-11 Thread Xavier Claessens
On lun, 2008-08-11 at 13:43 +0100, Matt Zimmerman wrote: On Fri, Aug 08, 2008 at 10:12:57PM +0200, Laurent Bigonville wrote: Hello everyone, 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

Re: Call for testing empathy

2008-08-11 Thread Xavier Claessens
On lun, 2008-08-11 at 07:13 -0700, Dane Mutters wrote: I've been testing empathy as well. It doesn't give me an option to have it figure out who each ICQ number pertains to (i.e. what their nickname is). That would be a really useful feature. ICQ do not support saving alias on server. Or

Re: Call for testing empathy

2008-08-11 Thread Xavier Claessens
On lun, 2008-08-11 at 16:07 +0200, Vincenzo Ciancia wrote: Il giorno dom, 10/08/2008 alle 13.55 +0100, Alexander Jones ha scritto: Saying that Ekiga meets the VoVi needs of Pidgin users is pretty ridiculous. It's SIP for a start, nobody uses SIP, and for the few that do, TELEPATHY

Re: Call for testing empathy

2008-08-11 Thread Mackenzie Morgan
On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 12:45 PM, Xavier Claessens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On lun, 2008-08-11 at 16:07 +0200, Vincenzo Ciancia wrote: Il giorno dom, 10/08/2008 alle 13.55 +0100, Alexander Jones ha scritto: Saying that Ekiga meets the VoVi needs of Pidgin users is pretty ridiculous. It's

Re: Call for testing empathy

2008-08-11 Thread Sebastien Bacher
Le vendredi 08 août 2008 à 19:23 -0400, steve a écrit : hardy here, wanted to see whats up with the package...it works. but... one thing... why are backends not installed by default or at least a way to do it from gui? Im not even seeing them in synaptic? is that because im not using

Re: Call for testing empathy

2008-08-11 Thread steve
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sebastien Bacher wrote: Le vendredi 08 août 2008 à 19:23 -0400, steve a écrit : hardy here, wanted to see whats up with the package...it works. but... one thing... why are backends not installed by default or at least a way to do it from

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 enough

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 meets the

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 as

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 what

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 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 enough

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 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 what

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 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 ppa should

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

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

Re: Call for testing empathy

2008-08-09 Thread Alexander Jones
Voice and video, period. -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss

Re: Call for testing empathy

2008-08-09 Thread Brian Curtis
The main goal of any instant messaging program is to allow the user to talk with friends and family around the world. Empathy, from the brief experience i've had, has that capability, as well as a multiple protocol capabilities which doesn't limit who they can talk to at all. I'm really

Re: Call for testing empathy

2008-08-09 Thread Marcin ‘Qrczak’ Kowalczyk
2008/8/8 Laurent Bigonville [EMAIL PROTECTED]: The ubuntu desktop team considers using it instead of Pidgin for intrepid as default IM client. Please not, until Empathy supports protocols that Pidgin supports (I have gadu-gadu in mind, which is widely used in Poland). -- Marcin Kowalczyk

Re: Call for testing empathy

2008-08-09 Thread Aurélien Naldi
On Sat, Aug 9, 2008 at 4:55 PM, Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2008/8/8 Laurent Bigonville [EMAIL PROTECTED]: The ubuntu desktop team considers using it instead of Pidgin for intrepid as default IM client. Please not, until Empathy supports protocols that Pidgin supports

Re: Call for testing empathy

2008-08-09 Thread Marcin ‘Qrczak’ Kowalczyk
2008/8/9 Aurélien Naldi [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Please not, until Empathy supports protocols that Pidgin supports (I have gadu-gadu in mind, which is widely used in Poland). Empathy can use libpurple as backend for the protocols which don't have yet a telepathy backend. Maybe it could, but it

Re: Call for testing empathy

2008-08-09 Thread Alexander Jones
No offence Marcin, but Gadu-Gadu is really only an issue if you are Polish. I don't think it's unreasonable to concede that such a small percentage of our user base will, in the absolute worst scenario, just have to install Pidgin themselves. Otherwise, help them build a Gadu-Gadu connection

Call for testing empathy

2008-08-08 Thread Laurent Bigonville
Hello everyone, 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 empathy a test and report bugs to launchpad[2]. It may be installed by running

Re: Call for testing empathy

2008-08-08 Thread steve
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Laurent Bigonville wrote: Hello everyone, 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