[JDEV] Re: Usable clients

[Thomas Charron]

Quoting Sebastian Spaeth <Sebastian at SSpaeth.de>:
> More concrete than future dreams, here my questions:
> 1) Which arefunctionally working clients I could use on my Gnome
> XWindows. As I understand is TCL already working, when are others to be
> released? Status is often not displayed on the jabber.org web pages.

  Cabbar is HIGHLY usable currently..

http://disq.bir.net.tr/cabbar/

> 2) To support chats, would that be task of the server to support these
> protocols or task of a client?

  That's the reasoning for the 'type' attribute of the message tags..  See 
http://protocol.jabber.org/docs/messages.html

> 3) Offtopic request: Please assure that some kind of security features
> are implemented. It could be PGP integration or whatever system you
> like. You would win a lot of hearts of people that hate ICQ because of
> its (missing) security.

  Not currently, but only becouse we didn't want to lock the protocol down to a 
particular encryption technology.  But the way the protocol is design, it can 
be extended to implement the security system of any individual users choice, 
including PGP.

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Thomas Charron
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