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

[Xavier Claessens]

On sam, 2007-01-20 at 09:51 -0500, Brian Pepple wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-01-20 at 15:39 +0100, Mikael Hallendal wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> +1

I think that building an IRC client using telepathy automatically means
multi-protocol. Of course a CM can have special interfaces to support
specific features but there is a big part that is common to all MUC. I
think IRC is a basic protocol with not that many features, Jabber
chatrooms are by far more complex, so if gossip can manage correctly
jabber chatrooms it should be ok for an IRC room too, at least it can be
experimented.