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

[Mikael Hallendal]

4 feb 2007 kl. 08.32 skrev Xavier Claessens:

Hi,

> 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.

If that is our end goal I'm quite sure there will be less work and a  
better result by starting out with a group chat application right a  
way and design it to do both IRC, XMPP and other similar group chats.  
Rather than to temporarily try to merge it into Gossip.

Cheers,
   Mikael Hallendal

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