[JDEV] Jabber Client Design Tutorial
Julian Missig
julian at jabber.org
Thu Sep 27 14:51:29 CDT 2001
There's one thing I agree with. :) I do feel we should come up with a
nice little guide to the suggested terms to use for various features,
when/where they should be used, and how they can be explained to the user.
Now if only I could find a way to sleep *and* do this stuff at the same
time...
Julian
Peter Saint-Andre wrote:
> 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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