And for both programs, the description presented in Add/Remove Programs is quite user-hostile. However, the description still appears in Add/Remove Programs’ “Installed applications only” view. Whichever program is chosen will be installed by default, so the package description matters more for whichever program is not chosen. Clicking the status icon in the panel also revealed or hid the Buddy List. Pidgin appeared in “Applications” > “Internet” as “Pidgin Internet Messenger”, with a purple bird icon. Clicking the status icon in the panel also revealed or hid the Contact List.
etc.Įmpathy appeared in “Applications” > “Internet” as “Empathy Instant Messenger” with an icon of two blue blobs. (And in Empathy, you can have voice or video chats without sending or receiving instant messages at all.) A better tooltip would be “Chat with people on AIM, Google Talk, MSN, Jabber”. In both cases, this is slightly missing the point: sending and receiving instant messages are the means by which you chat with people, not ends in themselves. In the Applications menu, Empathy had the tooltip “Send and receive instant messages”, and Pidgin had the slightly geekier “Send instant messages over multiple protocols”. I have not yet had time to report them all as bugs. Wherever the wiki page says "()", it needs a link to a bug report.
Test performed by Matthew Paul Thomas from 11~20 August 2008, with empathy 2.23.6-0ubuntu2 and pidgin 1:2.4.3-ubuntu1 on Intrepid Ibex alpha 3. This is a comparison of the usability of Empathy and Pidgin (as suggested in DesktopTeam/Meeting/), to help in deciding which should be used in Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex.
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