On Wednesday 17 June 2009 2:30:20 pm Vincenzo Ciancia wrote: > Il giorno mer, 17/06/2009 alle 13.16 -0400, Mackenzie Morgan ha scritto: > > > > > > Nevermind the fact that Empathy replacing Pidgin eventually was > > discussed at > > UDS *Jaunty* 6 months ago with a "let's aim for Jaunty+1" outcome and > > then re- > > discussed at UDS Karmic. There's been 6 months to get input. > > Testing requests must be more advertised perhaps. However we still have > 3+ months to give further input. I just hope that serious regressions > will be fixed if any. E.g. OTR comes to mind. A ubuntu live cd can be > used for secure communication. If you just plan to drop the thing there > and wait, then people will complain. > > I personally would prefer empathy over pidgin as it supports audio (does > it work well? As good as skype, which is bad in everything else?).
Daniel would know better, but based on what he's explained: I'd guess Empathy would deal better with audio than Skype would simply because Empathy doesn't try to abuse the ALSA API or do silly things to /proc like Skype does...and I *think* it's PulseAudio-aware, unlike Skype. -- Mackenzie Morgan http://ubuntulinuxtipstricks.blogspot.com apt-get moo
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