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 < > danny.picciri...@ubuntu.com> wrote: > >> 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.com>wrote: >> >>> -----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 >>> > empathy a test and report bugs to launchpad[2]. >>> >... >>> >>> To help in this decision, I have evaluated the usability of Empathy and >>> Pidgin, and written up my findings. >>> <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/EmpathyVsPidginUsability> >>> In summary, I suggest that Ubuntu continue using Pidgin by default for >>> Intrepid, and that we reconsider Empathy for Intrepid+1. >>> >>> Empathy currently does a couple of big things Pidgin does not (audio and >>> video chat), and handles one big feature much better than Pidgin (chat >>> logging). But I found most features were more obvious in Pidgin, >>> especially account setup, which is important for anyone who will start >>> using IM in Intrepid. (And people who were already using either Empathy >>> or Pidgin in a previous version of Ubuntu will continue using the same >>> program in Intrepid anyway, regardless of our decision.) >>> >>> I found dozens of small learnability and efficiency problems in both >>> programs, and I have not yet had time to report them all as bugs. If >>> anyone would like to help out with this, especially in finding bugs that >>> have already been reported, I'd greatly appreciate it. (Wherever the >>> wiki page says "()", it needs a link to a bug report.) >>> >>> Cheers >>> - -- >>> Matthew Paul Thomas >>> http://mpt.net.nz/ >>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- >>> Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) >>> Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org >>> >>> iD8DBQFIrJIj6PUxNfU6ecoRAgHOAKCMNPqz15lfIkvKSlOhvkhpDdcy3ACgueHC >>> DX06VJtu0JXEZHeibFY4gA8= >>> =9uzC >>> -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- >>> >>> -- >>> ubuntu-desktop mailing list >>> ubuntu-desk...@lists.ubuntu.com >>> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop >>> >> >> >> -- >> ubuntu-desktop mailing list >> ubuntu-desk...@lists.ubuntu.com >> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop >> >> >
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