query about applications being tied with gnome



Just a query I have about the future of gnome.....

I have noticed that certain applications are married together with gnome-shell, such as empathy and rhythmbox..... hence...
the messaging tray works together with them.
The only problem is that Empathy and Rhythmbox are poor choices of applications for several reasons... especially empathy...
It seems as though if people want the full use of gnome-shell they are pretty much forced to use empathy, which hasn't even got file transfer support for
most popular messenging protocols, or offline messaging... people have been complaining about its lack of features for atleast the Last 2 years with no improvements....

So my question is, Will the messaging tray work with other alternate messengers??? Same question about alternate Music Players etc?
I'm getting worried that Gnome are intergrating more and more applications by default into gnome-shell which are poor applications for the majority of us
and choosing a better alternate application for our needs will render Gnome-shell not fully featured during use....


can anybody clear this up for me?

thankyou

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