[JDEV] Jabber Client Design Tutorial

[Peter Saint-Andre]

Perhaps as a first step we can find some agreement about terminology
("roster" vs. "contact list" vs. "buddy list", "transport" vs. "gateway",
etc.)

Peter

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Peter Saint-Andre
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On Thu, 27 Sep 2001 hhager at orgo.com wrote:

> There is so much talk on what a Jabber Client should be, me thinks we should
> build a summary of the arguments for future UI reference.  And use that to
> direct
> new UI IM clients as they get started on their journey to swell design.
> Any new
> UI documents in the works as a response to the first one (which honestly i
> enjoyed
> reading as an albeit contested guide) ?  I would be happy to aggregate the
> existing public
> discussions, but I think are lots of offline talks going on as well.
> 
> -john
> 
> 
> 
> > > Ahh - it all becomes clear.  That makes the WinJab a bit less perplexing
> > to
> > > me.  Doesn't suit me at all (but for those who like it that's great).
> I'm
> > > all for a separate email client - applications should be seperated where
> > > possible - it's the OS's job to tie them together.  A combined email/IM
> > > client means that 50% of it is bloat for anyone who already has an email
> > or
> > > IM client that they are happy with.
> >
> > Winjab isn't a IM and an email client... it doesn't do POP, IMAP or SMTP
> :)
> > But what I meant was that at some point, I could see offline IM msgs being
> > used just like email. Hence, the GUI design similar to an email client.
> >
> > Peter M.
> >
> >
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