fedora 6/7 - why do you ignore k3b by default?

[Valent Turkovic]

On 5/16/07, David Nielsen <david at lovesunix.net> wrote:
> ons, 16 05 2007 kl. 19:53 +0200, skrev Valent Turkovic:
>
> > I don't see any better integration from gossip with Gnome in any case
> > - I would say that they are both nicely integrated with Gnome desktop.
> > Second thing is feature wise you can't even compare the two. Gossip is
> > jabber client and gaim is general IM client. I use ICQ, jabber and
> > other IM protocols. Gossip can't do anything beside jabber protocol.
> > Plus gossip crashed 4-5 times before it connected to our local network
> > jabber server!!! Gaim is much more stable! I prefer stability and
> > features of gaim any time over gossip's "Gnome HIG compatibillity" and
> > better "Gnome integration" - especially because gaim integrates great
> > with the gnome desktop.
>
> I use Gossip for about 16 hours a day without a crash. It was also
> forked into the Empathy program to support Telepathy so we could get
> support for all manners of functionality including VoIP,
> Videoconferencing and naturally multiple IM protocols.

Gossip works ok now... but for some reason it crashed a few times on
account creation.

> Using Empathy I'm currently chatting on MSN and Jabber (only protocols I
> use currently), works fine - we should be able to offer users an
> improved communications experience with gar better integration and a
> more userfriendly interface in F8 using Empathy.

Is there some repository I can use to install and test empathy with fedora 7?

> - David
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