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

[Mikael Hallendal]

20 jan 2007 kl. 16.15 skrev 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.

Using Telepathy makes it possible to make it multiprotocol at less  
cost than implementing all the different backends yourself. That  
doesn't mean it makes sense to make every Telepathy client multi  
protocol. This is the same discussion that has been floating around  
XMPP for ages (since in theory the XMPP provides the same thing as  
Telepath, only using XML instead of D-BUS).

Cheers,
   Mikael Hallendal

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