Re: GNOME Chat/Empathy Status

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,

Why do you ask?  <https://git.gnome.org/browse/empathy>  There are
current commits.

> What are the plans, are they merely aesthetic or are we discussing
> functionality too? Is there any active development actually happening in
> Empathy?

Looks like it to me.

> I personally would like to see Empathy replace Pidgin 

So replace it.  Empathy is the default IM client in GNOME;  if you are
using Pidgin either you selected it or your distribution changed it for
you.

> 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.

What does "enterprise support" mean to you?

BTW, Empathy is a front-end built on Telepathy.
<https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Empathy>


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