Comment 42 for bug 401028

I think the main problem was the idea of insert immature technologies into a stable constest such as Ubuntu. I fully understand that empathy (and the whole framework telepathy) is a step forward towards the idea of modern desktop, but at present there aren't real benefits to justify the use of this manifestly imperfect software. I think that the adoption of telepathy would have to be postponed as has been done for gnome-shell.
imho.