F10 Beta testing resaults :)

[David Nielsen]

2008/10/1 Peter Gordon <peter at thecodergeek.com>

> On Tue, 2008-09-30 at 16:02 +0000, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote:
> > Noticed that Pidgin has been replaced by the crappy not working
> [segfaulting]
> > 100%  cpu load causing piece if shit IM better known as Empathy
> > ( Me bitter no well yes.. )
>
> Well that's not very constructive. :)
>
> What specific problems are you having with it? How can they be
> reproduced? Please file appropriately detailed bugs on
> bugzilla.redhat.com so that we may attempt to fix these issues before
> F10-GA if they are truly present.
>
> Fwiw, I made the choice to switch to Empathy for the F10 beta exactly
> for the purposes of testing it and trying to squash any last-minute bugs
> in it. Whether or not it will be the default in F10 proper is still
> being considered. Likely, it still needs a lot of work in various areas
> (see [1]), so we may end up reverting to Pidgin as the default IM
> client, then go with Empathy from F11 and onward as circumstances
> permit.
>
> [1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/EmpathyVsPidginUsability
>

I for one really enjoy Empathy, I have used it for all my im'ing need since
it first entered Fedora. Except the webcam support in msn for which amsn is
still the only game in town but not for long.
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