Empathy default in F12?

[Rahul Sundaram]

On 08/16/2009 02:51 PM, Christoph Höger wrote:
> Am Sonntag, den 16.08.2009, 13:10 +0530 schrieb Rahul Sundaram:
>> On 08/16/2009 01:05 PM, Gregory Maxwell wrote:
>>> The F12 feature still indicates the switch to Empathy as a default IM
>>> client in Fedora.
>>>
>>> However, the talk page for the feature
>>> (https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Talk:Features/Empathy) raises material
>>> concerns that the switch to Empathy would result in an insufficiently
>>> justified loss of functionality.
>>>
>>> Where does this currently stand?
>>
>> My understanding is that Empathy is still planned to be the default.
>> What specific concerns do you have?
> 
> Well on fedora 10 it cannot connect to irc. Which makes it pretty
> unusable.

I use a separate IRC client but IIRC this has been fixed in Rawhide
already. So before we get into a comparison, it is useful to try out the
version in Rawhide. Fedora 12 Alpha should be out soon.

Rahul