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

[Mikael Hallendal]

26 jan 2007 kl. 16.26 skrev Jerry Haltom:

Hi,

>> 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.

Whether it's a spork or a swiss army knife doesn't really matter in  
this and it's just a level of suckiness :)

A spork still comes short for eating soup compared to a spoon or to  
use as a fork compared to a real fork. It's a compromise between  
various tools and so would Gossip be, or any other application that  
tries to integrate several (more or less) different tools into one

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

Well it's work in process and I don't think saying it sucks is going  
to help anyones inspiration to complete it.

> 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.

Agree about the link local, it should just be a setting on whether or  
not to use it.

Best Regards,
   Mikael Hallendal

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