Empathy replace Pidgin on Karmic Koala

It's been a long time since I post a useful post to my blog readers. In this post, i will try to make a post based on latest news for Karmic Koala development. There are several on going discussion regarding this issue where there are request for next release of Ubuntu(Karmic Koala -Codename) to use empathy instead of pidgin as default IM client.

Below are some links regarding the discussion:

• http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=7462614
• http://pinstack.blogspot.com/2009/06/replace-pidgin-with-empathy-in-karmic.html
• http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/11705/

So if anyone would interested to install empathy and use the latest version from empathy itself which currently on version 2.27.3, please follow the instruction below:

• Edit your APT source.list and add the following line:

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/telepathy/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main

• After adding the ppa link into source.list, you might need to import the key. To add the key please use command below:

sudo apt-key adv --recv-keys --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com FA3A1271

• Then update your source by doing sudo apt-get update.
• To install the empathy, please type sudo apt-get install empathy
• This will install the latest version of empathy on your machine. To enable the Adium theme to be use on empathy, you need to also apt-get install libwebkit-dev to meet the requirement. If not, the default theme will be use instead.

Try this empathy and give your opinion whether Empathy should/should not replace pidgin for the next cycle release. I'll attach my current empathy screenshot for review.

Currently running Jaunty on my laptop.