Comments on: Choosing a default Messenger client

By: bertux

bertux — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 23:07:00 +0000

I agree completly with Boke, he has writen exactly the answer i wanted to write.
Thanks Boke for this comment.
Thanks Ken for your Gnome packaging

By: Boke

Boke — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 10:13:09 +0000

Empathy and telepathy are great projects. And they really need an inclusion by default in a distribution such as foresight. Empathy is starting to get stable and usable, has a good UI that respects as much as possible the Gnome’s HIG, it can only get better by being included in Foresight.
And the constant upgrade process of foresight is great for young projects.

My opinion is that telepathy and empathy would benefit a lot of Foresight and they are projects that diserves to be helped.
Go for Empathy!

By: eosten

eosten — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 05:00:49 +0000

I would keep Pidgin as the default but include Telepathy + Empathy for early adopters. Empathy and the rest of the Telepathy stack still represent a pretty significant regression in features compared to Pidgin, though it depends on the connection manager (telepathy-haze, last I checked, couldn’t do simple things like set buddy icons). Later, when the underlying Telepathy layers flesh out a bit and when Empathy becomes better-integrated, switch to using that by default.

By: ken

ken — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 21:01:43 +0000

No doubt pidgin will remain in the repo, easy to install.

By: eddymul

eddymul — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 20:41:33 +0000

Most users will expect Gaim/Pidgin to be there.

I’d vote to default to Telepathy/Empathy (because it is *Foresight* Linux), but keep Pidgin around (or make it *very obvious* in the documentation on how to install pidgin)

By: guest

guest — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 19:35:48 +0000

Empathy is cool and rocks hard.

But for happy customers you would need telepathy-haze and therefore libpurple anyway.

So which one has the better UI and is better integrated?

I would say +1 for empathy (especially when looking at future plug-ins etc.)

By: szegey

szegey — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 18:55:13 +0000

I’m too very excited about telepathy. I don’t know if it’s ready to be default.
But Foresight is about the latest and greatest of the GNOME Desktop Environment and Freedesktop.org, so why not?

By: Lovechild

Lovechild — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 18:38:28 +0000

I’m happily using Empathy for all my protocols (msn and aim thanks to the libpurple based haze telepathy element).

It still needs work but it has served me well for a long time. I’m fairly interested in Banter but development seems to have stalled currently.

By: simontol

simontol — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 16:19:15 +0000

I really like the telepathy idea, hope it is usable enough for everyday at this time.