[Gossip-dev] New IRC account widget

[Brian Pepple]

On Fri, 2007-01-26 at 12:26 +0100, Mikael Hallendal wrote:
> As said before, I don't really see the rationale to add IRC support  
> to Gossip. It would make a whole lot more sense to add XMPP Chatroom  
> support to xchat(-gnome) than the other way around. Especially now  
> that we are using Telepathy where the connection can be shared and  
> this sort of multiprogram setups will be easy.
> 
> By adding IRC (as an example of a communication protocol that is  
> quite different from XMPP or other "IM" protocols) you will make the  
> UI more complex whether you like it or not. Thinking different is  
> just naive.
> 
> XMPP, MSN, AIM, <insert favorite IM here> all are quite similar  
> (though you will have loads of problems with these alone). IRC is  
> fundamentally different in that you don't have contacts in the same  
> way and no contact list.
> 
> By just adding support for all the IM-protocols you will have more  
> problems than you can handle without making the UI severely more  
> complex than it has been.
> 
> So I propose that the time is spent on adding support for XMPP  
> chatrooms in xchat instead of the other way around. Using different  
> programs for different needs is not a bad thing per se.

I'm in agreement with Mikael on this.  To me it makes more sense to add
XMPP chatrooms to an IRC client, than adding in IRC support into Gossip.

/B
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Brian Pepple <bpepple at fedoraproject.org>

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