Pidgin vs Empathy

[ubudog]

Your thoughts? :)

[Tibuda]

Empathy supports video and voice in some protocols. That's a good reason to use it as a default IM client. I'll stick to Pidgin, because I prefer text chat.

[reprobus]

I don't use voice and video, just text chat. Pidgin works fine for that. I can't comment on Empathy because I have never used it. I see no need to try another program when Pidgin does what I need it to do and it does it well.

[Arup]

Pidgin works fine if you just use it for chats, make sure to give it an open port and file transfers work fine as well.

I installed Empanty from PPA on my Jaunty and it never had any video audio function in my case.