empathy - is it for real?

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> On Thu, Mar 01, 2012 at 11:53:17AM +1000, Dan Irwin wrote:
>> Over several successive versions (Since Fedora 10), empathy has never
>> "just worked" or "worked right" on my laptop. It will crash. Modules
>> will crash. People will complain that I am signed in and ignoring
>> them, when I don't appear to have empathy even running. While I have
>> persisted with it, empathy seems exceptionally bad in Fedora 16.
> 

  I suggest you stop using it and switch to something else - file bugs
and if they are not resolved and the app is not working for you, don't
use it.

  Let others know what you find to be better alternative as that can be
helpful as well.

   gene