Hi list,
This is a bit of a rant about empathy.
This has to be the buggiest, least user friendly application on Fedora. And we choose it as our default IM client. Why?
I did a quick scan of the list, and I don't see much traffic about empathy. Surely It's not just me.
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 have now removed all accounts from empathy, and gone back to pidgin. Result? IM which works, behaves, and seems sane.
I think the concept of empathy/telepathy is great. The implementation is about as far from great as one could get.
Surely I am not the only one who has these experiences and thoughts.
Thanks for reading.
Regards,
Dan
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've seen some Empathy crashes 6+ months ago, but nothing lately. Did you file bugs for the crashers? Have they've been handled / forwarded upstream?
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
On 1 March 2012 05:53, Dan Irwin rummymobile@gmail.com wrote:
Hi list,
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Thanks for reading.
Regards,
Dan
I had similar problems with empathy in F15. It caused X freezes whenever new messages arrived. Then I switched to pidgin. On my current F16 installation I decided to give it a try - at least it has nice pop-up functionality. And everything works pretty well.
On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 7:38 PM, Olav Vitters olav@vitters.nl wrote:
I've seen some Empathy crashes 6+ months ago, but nothing lately. Did you file bugs for the crashers? Have they've been handled / forwarded upstream?
No, not yet. I was mainly fishing to see if anyone else has the problems i am seeing. Given the small number of replies, I can assume one of two things: 1) Not many people actually use empathy, or 2) Others are not seeing the problems I am.
If i can pinpoint some consistent buggy/bad behaviour, I will submit some reports to bugzilla.
On Fri, 2012-03-02 at 13:54 +1000, Dan Irwin wrote:
No, not yet. I was mainly fishing to see if anyone else has the problems i am seeing. Given the small number of replies, I can assume one of two things:
- Not many people actually use empathy, or
Just FYI, I tried it, found it annoying, went back to Pidgin.
- Others are not seeing the problems I am.
Dunno about that, never tried it for long enough. Don't really want to, either.