Empathy/Pidgin? [Was: Re: rawhide report: 20080313 changes]

[Jakub 'Livio' Rusinek]

Andrew Farris wrote:
> � wrote:
>>>
>>>> And is empathy better than pidgin?
>>> Define "better." =)
>>>
>>>
>> Unless it supports every IM protocol that Pidgin does and
>> brings big improvements such as voice/video and performance
>> then there is no questions about it ( And I mean voice/video support
>> no experimental
>> half baked thing or empty next release promises).
>>
>> If it does not match Pidgin and do one better..
>> Then Pidgin should continue to be the default until Empathy or some
>> other IM does..
>
> I don't think 'default' was discussed yet, but I'd agree with you on
> that point that Pidgin should be considered Fedora's 'default' (is one
> even really chosen?). Nevertheless, Pidgin is not Gnome's official IM
> client.

And this makes clear, why preferences are clutter and their UI simply sucks.

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