[JDEV] Jabber Client Design Tutorial

[Peter Saint-Andre]

Perhaps we can add this stuff to the recently-rediscovered glossary?

http://docs.jabber.org/general/html/glossary.html

Peter

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On Thu, 27 Sep 2001, Julian Missig wrote:

> 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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> > 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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