F10 Beta testing resaults :)

["Jóhann B. Guðmundsson"]

greg wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-09-30 at 17:51 -0700, Peter Gordon wrote:
>   
>> On Tue, 2008-09-30 at 16:02 +0000, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote:
>>     
>>> Noticed that Pidgin has been replaced by the crappy not working [segfaulting]
>>> 100%  cpu load causing piece if shit IM better known as Empathy
>>> ( Me bitter no well yes.. )
>>>       
>> Well that's not very constructive. :)
>>
>>     
Indeed it's not but then again switching people's default IM
for a immature and broken one is not playing nice either is it.
   
>> What specific problems are you having with it? How can they be
>> reproduced? Please file appropriately detailed bugs on
>> bugzilla.redhat.com so that we may attempt to fix these issues before
>> F10-GA if they are truly present. 
>>
>>     
Well I'm going to let other testers test this one
Walk to the side line, sit down, crack open a beer
and see the ripples of effect hit the forums and channels...

Encase you are wondering they are present al right...
kernel: telepathy-haze[8063]: segfault at 203a6e7f ip 003ae30a sp 
bfb42d50 error 4....
>> Fwiw, I made the choice to switch to Empathy for the F10 beta exactly
>> for the purposes of testing it and trying to squash any last-minute bugs
>> in it. Whether or not it will be the default in F10 proper is still
>> being considered. Likely, it still needs a lot of work in various areas
>> (see [1]), so we may end up reverting to Pidgin as the default IM
>> client, then go with Empathy from F11 and onward as circumstances
>> permit.
>>
>> [1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/EmpathyVsPidginUsability
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>
> i'd have to agree,, Empathy needs more work on it before it becomes
> default IM.whereas Pidgin is near complete, but at the end of the day,
> its just as easy to do a 
>
> yum remove empathy
> yum install Pidgin
>
>   
Instead of being forcing new IM down the end users throat,
let the users come to the IM client..

When the IM has something better to offer they will switch...

JBG.

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