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

[Jerry Haltom]

> Gossip is currently leaning towards becoming a swiss army knife and  
> by doing so you just have to accept that you will not cater those  
> that are looking for the real tools.

I disagree. I think there is a big difference between say... a swiss
army knife.... and a .... spork?

Gossip should be a spork.

A swiss army knife has tons of complexity. Attachments come out at all
sorts of different angles. You have to know when to use which
attachment. You have to make sure two attachments don't hit each other
on their way out, might have to put one back in first. You have a fork,
a knife, probably a nail clipper.

But all you really want to do is eat. Just so happens you also want to
eat soup.

A spork is simple. It's a nice ideal design. It takes the best of both
worlds, puts them into one non-complicated package, and gets the food to
your mouth. And it solves all the problems at hand.

This was silly, but I couldn't resist.

Also, down this line, I have a serious point to make. The Gossip Account
interface as it is, in the telepathy branch sucks.

I do not want to have to configure an account for link local support.
That's silly. The interface should be more than such a simple
abstraction around arbitrary account type and settings. It should have
some knowledge about those account types. Something like telepathy-salut
should simply be on by default, maybe with a single simple checkbox to
turn it off. And it should appear on the configuration page for Jabber.
Or close to it. And it should inherit the important settings (jid) from
your Jabber settings.

It shouldn't be so disconnected.