Comment 42 for bug 296867

I'd say that the default chat client should have OTR support, but no
problem with having other choices that don't, Empathy has voice and
video, which does make it a nice option.

Ron

On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 11:51 AM, Omnifarious
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> This shouldn't be considered a 'Wishlist' item.  A browser without https
> support is considered broken, not under-featured.  The same should be
> true for an IM program.
>
> --
> empathy needs to support OTR encryption
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/296867
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> Status in High-level library and user-interface for Telepathy: New
> Status in Telepathy framework - library: Confirmed
> Status in “empathy” package in Ubuntu: Triaged
> Status in “libtelepathy” package in Ubuntu: Invalid
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: empathy
>
> Hello,
> I just tried empathy (the Intrepid version) and it looked very solid and stable. There were a few minor things that could be improved (e.g. automatically resizing the contact list), but that is not the topic here.
> The reason why I won't switch to empathy from pidgin is the missing OTR support (http://www.cypherpunks.ca/otr/ ). This is a really important feature because no one should read your messages.
> There were others with the same idea (links at the bottom).
> Would be so great if it could support that important encryption standard.
> Thanks for helping out!
>
> Links:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/empathy/+bug/253452/comments/2
> http://lists.cypherpunks.ca/pipermail/otr-users/2008-September/001479.html
> http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16891
>

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