Comment 10 for bug 256783

I believe empathy should recommend telepathy-idle. It makes more sense to have IRC enabled by default instead of messing around trying to work out exactly how to do this. For the new linux users it is hardly intuitive that empathy uses telepathy plugins, and since pidgin supported IRC by default, and since it was the previous default messaging client, it should definitely be a recommend, if not for the users upgrading from Jaunty and get confused.