Instant Messaging in Fedora Workstation

[Bastien Nocera]

----- Original Message -----
> Hi Allan!
> 
> On Fri, 2015-04-24 at 18:33 +0100, Allan Day wrote:
> > This will largely be determined by whatever decisions are made
> > upstream in the GNOME project. (Chat is integrated into several key
> > GNOME modules - such as the shell and the control center - so it's
> > not
> > simply a matter of switching packages around.)
> 
> This isn't true: neither control-center nor gnome-shell depends on
> Empathy in Fedora 22 (in fact, not a single package on my computer
> does).

It's completely true in the sense that both gnome-shell uses
Telepathy as its chat backend, and that the Online Accounts panel in
control-center allow setting up Telepathy chat accounts.

Changing that isn't a matter of removing an app to drop-in another.

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