Comments on: Accepted Google Summer of Code projects for Empathy

By: Alexander van Loon

Alexander van Loon — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 20:25:24 +0000

Xavier, I’ve got no idea why you like it, but a lot of people certainly don’t and have complained about it in bugreports for XChat-GNOME as you can read here: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=323488 Many reasons for why such behavior of an IRC application is downright silly have been written there, so there is no need for me to clarify that. Channels in a treeview isn’t really a problem for me.

Please, at least consider implementing an option for having the contact list permanently visible.

By: xclaesse

xclaesse — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 14:30:28 +0000

@Alexander: It will be part of empathy’s tarball. I personally like the idea of hiding the contact list and having chatrooms in a treeview instead of tabs.

@livio: All protocols supported by libpurple (pidgin) are supported by empathy. Protocols not tested yet are not listed but you can add them by writing a .profile file. transfers, blocking user and a/v are not supported however.

By: Livio

Livio — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 13:35:36 +0000

I wonder if would be possible to have Gadu-Gadu support including image transfer, file transfer, blocking users and audio-video calls.

By: Alexander van Loon

Alexander van Loon — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 11:14:50 +0000

I’m really looking forward to seeing the stand alone IRC application based on Empathy/Telepathy, I’m glad it got accepted. Currently XChat-GNOME development seems dead, and they made a huge mistake IMHO (which the devs refused to fix) when they decided to hide the user list under a button. Using tabs for channels would probably be a better approach as well. So hopefully XChat-GNOME will be used for inspiration, but without copying it’s mistakes. I know Empathy was proposed for inclusion in GNOME 2.22 and now 2.24, I hope this stand alone IRC application will also be proposed for inclusion in GNOME?

By: yoplait

yoplait — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 09:22:19 +0000

Awesome !