[Gossip-dev] New IRC account widget

[Mikael Hallendal]

26 jan 2007 kl. 00.31 skrev Trond Danielsen:

Hi,

> 2007/1/25, Aredridel <aredridel at nbtsc.org>:
>> On Thu, 2007-01-25 at 21:44 +0100, Guillaume Desmottes wrote:
>> > Hello
>> >
>> > As announced, I'm trying to give some love to IRC support in  
>> Gossip. I'm
>> > writing a new configuration widget for IRC accounts.
>> > You can see what it look like on
>> > http://cass.no-ip.com/~cassidy/files/brol/gossip-irc-1.png
>> >
>> > I designed this UI using my previous experience in xchat-gnome and
>> > trying to keep it as simple as possible. Most of users just want to
>> > "connect on FreeNode" and don't care about servers and other  
>> technical
>> > stuffs. That's why I put these in a separate dialog.
>>
>>
>> Wow, that looks nice. I keep wanting to get Gossip to connect  
>> (whether
>> via a suitable MUC-IRC bridge or via Telepathy) to my IRC server,  
>> so I
>> can use just one app for IM.
>>
>> Aria

The two reasons you mention below are the exact two reasons why  
Gossip was started in the first place. Me and Richard was tired of IM  
clients being two complex (existing jabber clients, IRC, etc.) or  
trying to solve it all (Gaim).

> Hmm... I am just a humble user, but I still wanted to share the reason
> why I am using Gossip and not any other instant messaging program.
> Reason number one is the clean design and highly usable interface of
> Gossip that is specially made for Jabber. Gossip follows the UNIX
> philosophy of creating programs that does one thing, and does is well.
> Other programs, like Gaim, tries to be everything, and therefore fails
> to be good at anything.

I tend to agree to this and I'm not overly fond of Gossips current  
tendency to move towards Gaim (in functionality and complexity).

On the proposed UI, I think it's too complex for Gossip and we should  
drop the setting up of "Networks" and only have a way to specify  
which server to use (removing the extra dialog).

> These are just my thoughts, feel free to pipe them to /dev/null if you
> find them silly :). Anyway, thanks for producing the best IM client
> out there!

Thanks! I hope that the current development doesn't change this but I  
do share your concerns.

Best Regards,
   Mikael Hallendal

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