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

[David Nielsen]

ons, 16 05 2007 kl. 15:48 -0400, skrev Brian Pepple:
> On Wed, 2007-05-16 at 20:14 +0200, David Nielsen 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.
> > 
> > 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.
> 
> After F7 is released, I'll be pushing an update for gossip-0.24 which
> will support the use of the telepathy-plugins for those adventurous
> souls.
> 
> Regarding Empathy I'm a little skeptical of it's readiness for inclusion
> in Fedora since it's only had 2 releases so far. ;)

I've been giving it a good run for it's money, it's not bugfree but it's
surprisingly stable given the that it's in the early stages of
development.

- David
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