Instant Messaging in Fedora Workstation

[Nikos Roussos]

On Fri, Apr 24, 2015 at 7:55 PM, Jiri Eischmann <eischmann at redhat.com> 
wrote:
> Hi,
> Empathy, which is our default IM client, has been dead upstream for 
> some
> time, so I'd like to start a discussion about what instant messaging
> experience should look like in Fedora Workstation.

Thanks for opening the discussion. This is actually a pain for many of 
our users (and ourselves). I know many people (myself included) who 
don't use Empathy at all because of lack of OTR support. They switch to 
pidgin despite the lack of Gnome integration.

> It pretty much comes down to a question if we want to build a well
> integrated multi-protocol client (continuing with Empathy/Pidgin, or
> starting GNOME Chat) or if we should give it up and embrace all those
> popular, unfortunately mostly closed services (Skype, Messenger,
> Hangouts, Telegram...) and make them as integrated in the desktop as
> possible.

Although It would be nice to have as many as possible services 
integrated with Online Accounts, moving away from Jabber will be a 
disappointment for the majority of our community/users. I tend to 
disagree with what you write at your blog post. Jabber usage is 
increasing since Snowden. Many journalists rely on Jabber/OTR to work. 
A lot of well-known Jabber servers were forced to rate limit 
registrations due to increased demand over the last year.

Although I don't have a solution to offer I'd really hoped that Gnome 
Chat would have a more rapid development.


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