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Polari Now Used Instead of Empathy for IRC Conversations in GNOME Shell

By Marius Nestor

GNOME Shell 3.16 Beta 2 is now available for testing on selected platforms. The unstable release includes a number of improvements, bugfixes, as well as updated translations. According to the raw changelog, the brand-new Polari application is now used for IRC conversations in the GNOME desktop environment, instead of Empathy.

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