Alpha checkpoint

[Rahul Sundaram]

Peter Gordon wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-01-26 at 11:32 -0500, Matthias Clasen wrote:
>> - Empathy. When we switched back to pidgin as the default im client late
>> in the F10 cycle, we agreed to reevaluate empathy around the time of the
>> F11 alpha, and see if the concerns that prevented it from being the
>> default in F10 have been addressed.
> 
> Another huge issue with the transition was that there was no easy way to
> migrate accounts from Pidgin, In recent releases, there is now an
> "Import Accounts" button to the accounts dialog which automagically
> imports login information from Pidgin. (I have tested this successfully
> on Fedora 10 with rawhide Empathy/Telepathy packages, and AIM, Yahoo!
> IM, Jabber, and GoogleTalk all were imported nicely).
> 
> That should definitely make things a lot simpler for new users who would
> be hesitant because of the necessity to re-create a lot of account info.

Account information is usually small and can be recreated. What about 
chat logs, preferences etc?

Rahul