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Pidgin lacks working video-chat support (in principle it can be enabled, but I’ve yet to hear of anyone besides the developers who’s managed to use it), but it offers a couple of other important features that Empathy still lacks. Ideally, all of these features would be implemented in both clients, but until then, this sounds like an equitable trade off.

To reiterate an assertion I made a couple of weeks ago when first writing about the Empathy/Pidgin controversy in Ubuntu 9.10, the overwhelming similarity between the two clients proves that this should be a non-issue. At this point, the Ubuntu developers might as well stick with Empathy, since it’s already made it through the alpha releases, and focus their energies on more pressing concerns.

jarryson 写了：google talk是可以视频的。

我觉得pidgin是不会这样死掉的

Empathy advocates responded that the decision to switch to Empathy resulted not from Pidgin’s lack of video support as the appeal of Empathy’s Telepathy framework, which offers a rich infrastructure for desktop collaboration that Pidgin will likely never implement. Telepathy’s built-in support for remote desktop sharing, for example, was cited as a major advantage over Pidgin.