Re: [orca-list] orca support in empathy

["B. Henry" <burt1iband gmail com>]

It was pretty much the other way around, i.e. pidgin had more features than the competition.
Thunderbird is a vible chat option for many networks, less features, but plenty good enough for most people. 
I have used it for facebook, gtalk, and a 
couple others, maybe aim or yahoo/can't remember.
Twitter works, but is not really usable if you get more than a few tweets an hour as the display is in a grid 
and focus does not automatically go to last 
read or something. There was a good plug-in , well extension I guess, for windows only a few years ago, but 
it like so many other good extensions broke 
with t-bird updates. 
Oh, irc is the other protocol that works well with thunderbird. I don't think aim will work as it uses oscar, 
but not sure it does not.
Features are limited, but for basic chat I find thunderbird fine/usually have a few accounts and one or two 
irc chans set up just in case I want to use it.
For those who use the commandline I highly recomend bitlbee. It is a very actively maintained program and 
lets you use your favorite irc client, irssi is 
mine and probably the best over all for most folks, to connect to other chat protocols. It handles oscar 
services like aim, xmpp and with a add on facebook 
chat. YOu can also set it up to connect to skype. That last one takes some doing, i.e. I'd not recommend it 
to a novice who does not have time and or 
patience following instructions. You have to install skyped and get it set up and then connect to it with 
bitlbee. I also use bitlbee to tweet. It works 
similarly to ttytter or oystter, i.e. you use tweet index codes, a letter and a number to say wich tweet you 
are replying to or rt'ing, e.g. reply x2 Your 
tweet sounds like a crow with a sore throat dudette
would reply to the  tweet with x2 as its code.
It is a bit less versitile than oysttytter and ttytter, but does most of what you need, and you don'at have 
to prefix commands with a slash in bitlbee in 
the default mode. There is a strict mode that makes it imposible to confuse commands with tweeted words as 
well. 
a couple things are nicer with bitlbe twitter actually, and as you can automatically log with irssi and most 
any irc client you can easily read stuff from 
hours or days ago with out opening a browser.
Instant bird is another option, but it does little more than thunderbird, and never got enough community 
behind it to write the extensions it would need to 
get in to pidgin's league of power and flexibility. 
Too bad there as it's basiclly a good program, and very accessible that looks the same on windows and linux 
which is important to quite a few folks who use 
both os's regularly.

 
  
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  Krishnakant wrote:
Fri, Jun 24, 2016 at 09:15:17AM +0530

> Pidgin works very well and I use it for all my chatting.
> I think since it is stable enough for some time now, it is the right and
> probably only choice for chatting.
> I would like to know if Empathy has some feature which Pidgin does not have?
> So we could know what Orca users are missing out.
> Happy hacking.
> Krishnakant
>
>
> On Thursday 23 June 2016 08:02 PM, Joanmarie Diggs wrote:
> > Hi Sathyan.
> >
> > Empathy has a number of accessibility bugs that make using it with Orca
> > pretty difficult. And I don't believe Empathy is being actively
> > maintained. My recommendation would be to not use Empathy.
> >
> > --joanie
> >
> > On 06/23/2016 10:23 AM, sathyan wrote:
> > > What about orca support in empathy. I find it difficult to configure
> > > empathy. I use ubuntu 16.4 Sathyan.
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