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

[Xavier Claessens]

On sam, 2007-01-20 at 15:39 +0100, Mikael Hallendal wrote:
> 20 jan 2007 kl. 11.31 skrev Xavier Claessens:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Not entirely sure which parts you had in mind and haven't looked on  
> xchat-gnome. However, my memory from looking at XChat a few years ago  
> is that the code quality was quite low. This could have changed since  
> then and maybe even more in xchat-gnome.

> I'm not sure which would be the least work, to add the missing  
> features to the current implementation or to try to incorporate xchat- 
> code into Gossip.

> However, I think that Xchat will always want to be more IRC specific  
> (unless it is also going multi-protocol) than Gossip can/will be so  
> to me it would make sense to keep XChat next to Gossip on a desktop  
> rather than merge them into one application.

In fact the code quality is still very poor in xchat and x-g, that's one
of the reasons it would be great to rewrite it from the ground using a
better design than what xchat provides.

Xavier.