(2009-08-28) Empathy Telepathy Vs Pidgin

Tele Pathy is a new FrameWork which provides a means of Real Time communication (IPC) on the LinuxOS desktop. The interface is provided through the DBus Messaging system, which is available for any application to take advantage of... While Pidgin is a solid, feature rich Instant Messaging client, it's not following the same path as the GNOME desktop. Telepathy is the way of the future, at least for GNOME, which means that Pidgin could never be. Empathy is another Instant Messaging program which supports numerous networks and has lots of features. The project was introduced into GNOME with release 2.24 as the desktop's messaging client. Empathy was built to take advantage of the new Telepathy framework which enables system wide communication not previously possible.