GNOME 2.22 planning: Empathy messaging client and toolkit proposed for inclusion (ArsTechnica) [LWN.net]

GNOME 2.22 planning: Empathy messaging client and toolkit proposed for inclusion (ArsTechnica)

Posted Oct 3, 2007 9:26 UTC (Wed) by jospoortvliet (guest, #33164)
Parent article: GNOME 2.22 planning: Empathy messaging client and toolkit proposed for inclusion (ArsTechnica)

How does empathy compare to Pidgin? I mean, do they share anything?

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GNOME 2.22 planning: Empathy messaging client and toolkit proposed for inclusion (ArsTechnica)

Posted Oct 3, 2007 10:10 UTC (Wed) by Felix.Braun (guest, #3032) [Link] (1 responses)

I have found from my own quick search on the subject that Emapthy is able to use pidgin's libpurple as a backend to communicate on the various IM-networks. (link)

However, I'm still not sure why I need a different frontend to libpurple. I'm actually quite happy with pidgin. But that may be because I'm not yet able to imagine all the cool things that I would be able to do with Telepathy / Empathy / Galago...

GNOME 2.22 planning: Empathy messaging client and toolkit proposed for inclusion (ArsTechnica)

Posted Oct 3, 2007 14:08 UTC (Wed) by salimma (subscriber, #34460) [Link]

Pidgin developers appear insufficiently committed to audio-video chat support -- Telepathy is more multimedia-focused.

It's great if the Purple backend can be reused though!