We revealed yesterday that meta-contacts is coming to the Empathy instant messenger and now one of its developer – treitter – has spoken more on how it all works…. How to link A new ‘link […]
With so many competing IM and chat services you end up using by accident or intention – from GTalk when you log into GMail to Facebook when you login to Facebook – it’s by no means unusual […]
Talented designer MastroPino strikes again; yesterday we featured his wonderful Elementary Pidgin theme and today we’re excited to share with you his equally-sublime Empathy theme. I much prefer Empathy over pidgin but hate the default […]
The default messaging client in Ubuntu 10.04 remains Empathy and although it has some detractors still smarting over the switch from perennial favourite Pidgin Empathy remains a fully capable and easy to use messaging client. […]
It’s the IM client everyone loves to hate but for all its perceived shortcomings Empathy remains a perfectly usable and roundly featured application – hence why it’s default! For Ubuntu 10.04 Empathy gains a new […]
Empathy in Lucid will have a pre-configured option for adding a Facebook Chat account thanks to Facebook opening up their Facebook Chat protocol earlier this week. Chatting to your Facebook contacts via most multi-protocol clients […]
Facebook made their ‘Facebook chat’ protocol all awesome and nice today by adding support for the Jabber/XMPP protocol. This means you can have facebook chat in Pidgin, Empathy, etc without the need for buggy third-party […]
An awesome elementary theme for Empathy, oddly submitted for potential inclusion in Lucid. The picture sells the theme better than typed words can. A must for Elementary fans. Download http://www.gnome-look.org/CONTENT/content-files/119449-elementary%20Empathy.zip Install Extract the .zip folder […]
Empathy will be getting a custom theme for its inclusion in Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx. David Siegel, who works for Ubuntu’s Design and User Experience team, posted the news on his twitter account, also mentioning […]
Oraerk on the Ubuntu Forums posted the following script, and i thought I’d share it with the wider world. It allows one click installation of Adium themes in Empathy through the Adium themes website; You […]
Empathy can support any protocol that pidgin does – this includes facebook chat. Whilst there is no user-end plugin framework for Empathy as of yet, there is a simple hack around to get Facebook chat […]
Karmic Beta was today gifted with an updated set of sounds for use with Empathy. I say ‘Sounds’, but i can only discern one new one and it’s used when you get a new instant message in […]
