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

[Mikael Hallendal]

21 jan 2007 kl. 10.34 skrev Martyn Russell:

Hi,

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> Steve Frécinaux wrote:
>> I sort of think that a MUC-centric new software (without contact list
>> and such) would be better.
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> You can hide the contact list in MUC in Gossip. Removing it completely
> would upset a lot of people.

I think he referred to the main contact list (not the chatroom  
contact list).

>> IMHO there is not much common between IRC and
>> jabber MUC on the first hand, and jabber, msn, aim and others on the
>> other hand, so two different things should probably mean different
>> applications...
>
> Well, the basic feature is the ability to chat, the only thing you can
> build on top of that is advanced IRC / Jabber specific features and we
> still haven't really finished the basic shared features of both IRC  
> and
> Jabber yet really.

I'm quite sure that unless we implement a fullblown IRC client in  
Gossip there will be people who prefer to use XChat or another fully  
supporting IRC client. I don't think we should implement full blown  
IRC as it means a lot of special UI for that. The more different UIs  
we add the less it will feel like one application in the end.

IRC is fundamentally a bit different from IM-clients in that you  
don't have contacts or subscription (you can simulate it to some  
extent by polling for nicknames but it only works if everyone always  
used the same nicknames).

Either way I don't think using XChat code in Gossip would by us  
anything but adding more features that are supported by both XMPP MUC  
and IRC to the chat room would be a good idea.

Cheers,
   Mikael Hallendal

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