Removal of pidgin

[Yousuf Philips]

Hi Team,

With the addition of HexChat in 20.04 as the primary chat app to support
our default support medium, I'm suggesting again that we remove Pidgin as
part of the research I did[1]. Pidgin's usefulness has dropped steadily
over the years since previous chat protocols like MSN, Yahoo Messenger and
Google Talk are no longer around or no longer supported and it takes up
35,730kb of installed space. It also isn't bundled by any of the flavors or
any Xfce distro other than Manjaro.

[1]
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/145vm29WnxgYm4Y_8guaGDAblZT5sRjZ3jhKRktgX1No/edit#gid=0

Regards,
Yousuf

[wojiushixxx]

Hi,




I can't agree with you more.
















At 2021-05-22 16:00:00, "Yousuf Philips" <***@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Team,


With the addition of HexChat in 20.04 as the primary chat app to support our default support medium, I'm suggesting again that we remove Pidgin as part of the research I did[1]. Pidgin's usefulness has dropped steadily over the years since previous chat protocols like MSN, Yahoo Messenger and Google Talk are no longer around or no longer supported and it takes up 35,730kb of installed space. It also isn't bundled by any of the flavors or any Xfce distro other than Manjaro.


[1] https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/145vm29WnxgYm4Y_8guaGDAblZT5sRjZ3jhKRktgX1No/edit#gid=0



Regards,
Yousuf

[Michael Lueck]

Greetings,

Post by Yousuf Philips
I'm suggesting again that we remove Pidgin

Sadly +1 here.

I miss the days of desktop IM. It is annoying to me that I must grab for my phone now to IM ping someone.

I am thankful,

[Yousuf Philips]

I use telegram, which works independently on a phone and desktop, so I
never have to grab my phone for IM.

Regards,
Yousuf

Post by Michael Lueck
Greetings,

Post by Yousuf Philips
I'm suggesting again that we remove Pidgin

Sadly +1 here.
I miss the days of desktop IM. It is annoying to me that I must grab for
my phone now to IM ping someone.
I am thankful,
--
Michael Lueck
Lueck Data Systems
http://www.lueckdatasystems.com/
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[notebook]

I didn't follow the whole conversation.

Perhaps it's a good idea to start a vote on this topic somewhere with numbers, instead of many mails going back and forth.

Regards
Chris

I use telegram, which works independently on a phone and desktop, so I never have to grab my phone for IM.
Regards,
Yousuf
Greetings,

Post by Yousuf Philips
I'm suggesting again that we remove Pidgin

Sadly +1 here.
I miss the days of desktop IM. It is annoying to me that I must grab for my phone now to IM ping someone.
I am thankful,
--
Michael Lueck
Lueck Data Systems
http://www.lueckdatasystems.com/ <http://www.lueckdatasystems.com/>
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