No IRC support in Fedora 12?!?
Paul W. Frields
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Sun Oct 11 04:29:24 UTC 2009
On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 10:40:47PM +0000, Valent Turkovic wrote:
> Hi, current rawhide and Empathy client show great promise as it adds audio
> and video conference options.
>
> But one thing that Fedora users are used to have, IRC chat, seams like it
> is not supported and not working in current version of Empathy.
>
> Are Fedora developers aware of that? Is there some fallback plan to
> include IRC support in default Fedora Desktop spin in some other way?
This is a fair point, since we do have live help channels on IRC and
not some other sort of messaging standard right now. The
telepathy-idle package is 166KB according to yum info. Does this
present a problem?
> After installing telepathy-idle I see no difference.Am I doing something
> wrong? Also why isn't telepathy-idle installed as a dependency or at leas
> by default with empathy?
I don't understand this part of the post. I have installed
telepathy-idle and IRC works on Empathy here on my Rawhide system.
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