Talk:Features/Empathy

Feature Wrangler Review

• Please update owner information
  • John, why do you think feature ownership should be limited to individuals ?
  • I'm fine with having the desktop team being the owners, but we need some kind of e-mail addy, so we can contact feature owners on FESCo meeting invites, summaries, etc. - bpepple
    • If FESCo doesn't know how to contact the desktop team, we have a problem...

Pro Arguments for Empathy

• Voice chat with GoogleTalk (though this will probably need us to look at our firewall rules for this to work out of the box) - bpepple
• Better GNOME integration the Pidgin - bpepple
• Account migration support from Pidgin has been added to Empathy. Not really a big issue since this feature is for new installs, but still worth pointing out. - bpepple
• Support for Tubes (for AbiWord collaration, etc) - bepple

Con Arguments for Empathy

• File transfer support currently is only implemented for Link-local XMPP (telepathy-salut) - bpepple
• Missing plugin system, so many of the add-on features available to Pidgin (like encryption, etc) are not available to Empathy - bpepple
• Account dialog still has some issues (like http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=548717), which I'm not sure will be completed before F11 - bpepple
• IRC support (telepathy-idle) sorta sucks in Empathy. for example, chat windows don't show what irc-room it's for. - bpepple
  • I just tried again, and found that it does show the channel information nowadays. This has been fixed. - mclasen
• Telepathy-haze multi-protocol support has been a bit spotty. We seem to get a fair amount of bug reports about the various protocols (yahoo, etc) not working for folks. - bpepple

Misc wish list items

• Support for logging in with GSSAPI/Kerberos with XMPP. Pidgin currently supports this, but I'm not 100% sure this should be considered a block for making Empathy the default IM. Bug #472655 - bpepple