[JDEV] Good jabber client needed (was: Response to Jer's Article)

[Bernd Eckenfels]

On Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 03:58:32AM +0000, Celso Martinho wrote:
> I hate to disagree but that's missinformation. I find Gabber an Excellent Linux Jabber client, up to date and well supported.

Well, I use Gabber, too, because there are no others fitting into my
desktop, but you cant call it excelent yet:

- dropping/not displaying error messages (especially from agents)
- misshandling of messages from agents
- does not notice broken conenctions reliable
- user interface got better (setting groups) bit still is a bit unreliable

I am very satisfied with the Work of the Gabber guys and like to report them
and most of the time they fix the bugs quite quick.

But if you say "excelent" i just think we are not there, yet.

Under Windows I still miss a good client. JabberIM is a Unsupported Nitemare
and winjab is a bit complicated for simple IMing. I loved the IRC Access to
the Server, its quite interesting, but of course the client interface is a
bit unusual :)

Greetings
Bernd