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

[Martyn Russell]

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Mikael Hallendal wrote:
> 20 jan 2007 kl. 11.31 skrev Xavier Claessens:
> 
> Hi,

Hi,

> 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.

I think it is less work to add to the current Gossip code.

When I think back over the past few years of all the things that we have
added, fixed, improved on, etc in the chat interface, I think that if I
was writing it now from scratch, there would be a lot of lessons learnt
lost in that implementation.

We have improved the chat code quite a lot over the past years and I
find it hard to imagine how it could be any better than it is now
especially without introducing nasty regressions and lack of
functionality to what we have now.

> 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.

Although I agree in principle, I don't think this is something everyone
wants. I personally just want ONE chat client to use IRC, Jabber and MSN
from, I am not interested in multiple applications, BUT, I am not an
advanced IRC user and so perhaps we do need both an IRC simple Gossip
solution and an application? I just know how I want to use it.

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Regards,
Martyn
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