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2012
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12.04 Feature Freeze This WeekThis week is feature freeze in Ubuntu land and the Kubuntu community have been working hard to get in as many as possible before the deadline.
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Please go for Kopete.
Please go for Kopete. Telepathy-KDE looks promising, but its far from being a replacement yet.
Please go for Kopete.
What makes you say that?
I disagree
I actually think Telepathy would be quite fine. It's working great here...
What happens in case a bug is
What happens in case a bug is discovered?
Telepathy-KDE is so young, I wouldn't expect any bugfix-only releases which means bugs may only be fixed in new feature releases. That means Canonical must be willing to ship new feature releases as regular updates and hopefully those releases don't contain new bugs. And who knows how long Telepathy-KDE can even be compiled against 4.8 libraries.
Kopete is the safer choice. It's proven to be free of really serious bugs.
Please keep Kopete
I'm clearly for keeping Kopete. I'm not against change, but the new thing has to prove to be ready first. Based on past experiences with pushing premature new solutions onto users in Ubuntu/Kubuntu (entirely broken KDEPIM 4.7, just to name the latest) I afraid it might not be. I can speak only for myself, it might not be maintained (I don't know), but it's running pretty stable for years. So I see no immediate need to replace it. The telepathy thing still has to prove that as far as I can see. Has it been part of a distribution to reach a wider audience? Why not package it as optional replacement for Kopete? So that users can try it and safely go back to Kopete in case it doesn't work out. Even more so as 12.04 is supposed to be an LTS if I'm not mistaken.
Corrections
Your post has a few errors which I'd like to correct:
1) Calligra does not have any MS Office export feature. It has robust OOXML (.docx,...) import but the office apps can only save as ODF and HTML.
2) Krita is not "the world's best painting app". Not by far. It may be the best FOSS painting app but for now Corel Painter is unmatched by any FOSS app.
3) Kubuntu Active would not be the first distribution with a tablet UI. There already exist openSUSE and MeeGo/Mer images with Plasma Active.