Comment 77 for bug 388898

excellent idea, just like our codec manager-- should be filed as a separate
bug i think

On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 09:27, Brian Curtis <email address hidden> wrote:

> Laurent/Martin/Ken
>
> I have found that a lot of people are disappointed that telepathy-idle
> is not installed by default when they try to move their IRC account from
> pidgin to empathy. I was thinking, something that may (or may not) work
> for saving space on the LiveCD and stop users from complaining that
> their spec isn't available by default would be to have empathy install
> the connection managers (idle, butterfly, haze, etc...) upon request
> when the user tries to create these accounts. I assume the user will
> have to have an internet connection when wanting to use empathy, so its
> just the means of installing the small packages to get the connection
> managers working.
>
> Workflow would be:
> -hi thank you for installing empathy, would you like to import accounts
> from pidgin?
> -because you are trying to install (AIM,IRC,MSN) we need to install the
> connection managers, please click next to continue with this operation
> -Importing accounts, please wait...
>
> It may also work to remove the connection managers if nobody is using an
> account with them anymore.
>
> Thoughts/Bashings/Comments?
>
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> [MIR] empathy dependencies
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