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

[Robert McQueen]

Xavier Claessens wrote:
> That's just an idea, maybe I'm wrong and we should really make a
> separate application for IRC using telepathy instead of trying to merge
> x-g and gossip together...

With my Telepathy hat on, I think it's a far better idea to put an
IRC-style UI (ie, xchat) on top of Telepathy, rather than trying to turn
Gossip into an IRC-style UI, which is something it will intentionally
never be very good at. This approach has the benefit of making something
non-IRC (eg Jabber MUC) more appealing to hardened IRC addicts by
bringing it into the UI that they prefer. I think it's naive to expect
you could gradually turn Gossip into a good IRC client without doing
things which would make it a bad IM client. If we ever have special
Telepathy interfaces for certain IRC functions, I'd expect them to be
implemented in xchat-telepathy, not in Gossip.

> Xavier Claessens.

Regards,
Rob