On Wed, 2008-12-31 at 15:42 +0100, Jan de Groot wrote:
The reason why Empathy is still in testing and unmaintained is because I took it to testing when GNOME 2.24 was released. After GNOME moved to extra, I didn't move empathy because I'm not happy with the current state of the telepathy stack on archlinux. I don't have any interest in this package as I'm a happy pidgin user. If a TU wants to maintain empathy in community together with the telepathy stack that is required to use empathy, I'm happy to move it back.
That's kind of the problem. I have been using telepathy together with Bjørn (former TU) for a long time, but even until now, it's not very useful. Except for XMPP I have to use Pidgin for all other protocols, and empathy as a frontend still lacks the major features (administrative XMPP stuff for example), so I have to use even other clients for that (Gajim, Psi). In the end, except for some nicer UI, Telepathy/Empathy is nowhere close to Pidgin or (if you only use one chat-service) special clients like Gajim for example. So following "one program for one task" I would decide for Pidgin as the main GNOME chat program instead of Empathy (for now).