[Gossip-dev] Using xchat-gnome's UI for gossip chatrooms

[Xavier Claessens]

On lun, 2007-01-29 at 10:10 +0000, Martyn Russell wrote:
> I spoke to Richard about all this sort stuff on the weekend, and we both
> agreed that the best way forward here is to perhaps have different
> applications SPECIFICALLY for doing different types of communicating.
> For example, I think it makes sense to have an application for doing
> instant messaging like Gossip does but for MSN, Yahoo, etc, and another
> application for doing group chat like IRC, Jabber chatrooms, etc. Maybe
> even another application JUST for doing account set up and
> configuration. This is the sort of idea I am coming around to, and
> perhaps considering breaking up Gossip to do this. Having a contact list
> is quite redundant if you use IRC for example.

That's the goal of telepathy. That kind of thing will be possible once
we have a Mission Control for the GNOME desktop. I personally think
gossip will be split in some separate program when we'll have a MC spec.
In gossip I see at least 4 applications: Contact-list, account
configuration, private chat, chatroom. Those application can be created
from gossip by splitting it, but for the moment it's easier to keep
everything in a single program.

Xavier