Comments on: News about Empathy

By: Anthon

Anthon — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 22:20:46 +0000

As fas as I know, telepathy will bring msn voice/video chat. This is a lot of years late, due Pidgin skipping this development. THIS IS GREAT, WITHOUT MSN VOICE/VIDEO EUROPEAN USERS ARE NOT INTERESTED ABOUT LINUX, THIS NEW SOFTWARE WILL CHANGE GAME RULES FOR OS.

By: Nathan Samson

Nathan Samson — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 12:18:21 +0000

Hi,

I want to know if empathy is able to import my logs and configuration from pidgin/purple.

Greetings,
Nathan

By: Daeng Bo

Daeng Bo — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 12:00:17 +0000

First of all, congratulations! I’ve been rooting for for you for a while.

More importantly, I’m wondering what the plan is on resolving the licensing issue. I’ve heard the matter thrown around for a couple of Gnome releases now, and I guess the Gnome devs decided that they really wanted to go the Empathy/Telepathy route (which I think is great), but you previously said that you may have to completely rewrite the libempathy code so that it doesn’t contain any Gossip stuff. What’s your chance of using telepathy-glib (or something like that)?

By: xclaesse

xclaesse — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 08:20:42 +0000

Markku: That needs support in the telepathy spec. It is not high priority atm.

By: Markku

Markku — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 08:12:20 +0000

Good work!

What’s the support for encryption and private chats in Empathy now? Is there any plan to support OTR (http://www.cypherpunks.ca/otr/ ) ? Or should OTR be implemented in telepathy?

By: Matthew

Matthew — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 01:39:36 +0000

@patrys you really replaced Gajim with it? I’ve tried before but Emph. always came away lacking. A big issue for me is lack of bookmarks(xep-0048).

By: Jones Lee

Jones Lee — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 01:21:52 +0000

It’s great to hear that Empathy will be shipped by default on major distros but seriously I just HATE the Gossip’s UI. Compare to Pidgin (which isn’t that great though), Empathy GUI still lacks pro-look touch. (no flame here)

By: Stoffe

Stoffe — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 21:25:15 +0000

I love the idea of Empathy, this is certainly good news! It’s oh so very limited in functionality compared to other software, but this probably means those things will be fixed faster, so I’m all for!

Personally, I stupidly need the MSN file transfers for work. It’s completely retarded as we have SVN, FTP, and oh, mail, but you can only be “that guy” for so long when you work with a lot of people who have a built-in reflex to send stuff by dragging it into MSN. At least I’m allowed to use Linux as my main desktop and with no ill effect, so I’m mostly very happy. I would sure love to ditch aMSN though, for Empathy (or in worst case, Pidgin, that doesn’t have this feature either). Some day the world will be XMPP. Some day…

Oh, and I love status messages as well. Maybe they are in Empathy, not sure. That’s just for fun on the other hand – but that’s important too! There is at least one fun conversation started daily due to those messages, and what is that if not about people – like GNOME?

Keep up the great work! Empathy/Telepathy and the integration ot will offer with tubes and whatnot is something I am looking forward to a lot.

By: Colin Walters

Colin Walters — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 19:24:39 +0000

We’re also looking at it for Fedora: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/GNOME2_24

By: xclaesse

xclaesse — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 18:58:40 +0000

I’ll see if it’s possible to get the sound branch in time, but the contact list stuff is clearly not critical to include, I’m not even sure it will be included at some point…