Re: GNOME Chat/Empathy Status

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More interestingly I discover they are 2 separate things - that throws
even more questions into the mix. I'll leave it at this for now:

Why 2 separate chat applications? Why not merge and fix within Empathy?
Or the other way around.

- Ikey

On Wed, 2014-04-09 at 13:08 +0100, Michael Ikey Doherty wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> Out of curiosity (more driven by a recent WOGUE article) - what is the
> actual official status of Empathy? Is it abandoned, or is GNOME
> approaching a different angle with a new app? (As we've seen in the past
> with Vala/JS rewrites)
> 
> What are the plans, are they merely aesthetic or are we discussing
> functionality too? Is there any active development actually happening in
> Empathy?
> 
> I personally would like to see Empathy replace Pidgin on my machine with
> something more integrated, and Empathy is probably the one to do that. I
> believe decent SIP support with a dial-pad, and ability to set proxy per
> profile, would make Empathy more appealing to many folks. This is a
> recurrent problem for myself, and many that I know, the lack of
> enterprise support within tools like Empathy.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Ikey
> 
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