[Gossip-dev] Re: [Telepathy] Telepathy Status

[Mikael Hallendal]

Gavin Gilmour wrote:
> * David Nielsen <david at lovesunix.net> [2006-10-11 14:13:13 +0200]:
> 
>> As a user I'd love to see the functionality Gossip offers in my GNOME
>> desktop and I know many others who feel the same way thus I'd be all for
>> proposing Gossip for inclusion in 2.18.

Hi,

> Ordinary user again here chiming in to say I'd love to see this too.
> 
> For such a well engineered and GNOME consistent product, compared to the
> alternatives around, I'm surprised it hasn't been included already to be
> honest. :)

One of the reasons so far has been that we haven't wanted it to be as
adds a bunch of extra work for us and restrictions for how and when we
can make changes.

This is true with or without the Telepathy backend.

Cheers,
  Micke

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