[JDEV] Jabber Client Design Tutorial

[Thomas Muldowney]

My friend Nick spent a few days recently adding to it.  He's at home right
now, but we can see where he's at hoepfully tomorrow (Sun).  

--temas


Peter Saint-Andre writes:

> Perhaps we can add this stuff to the recently-rediscovered glossary?
> 
> http://docs.jabber.org/general/html/glossary.html
> 
> Peter
> 
> --
> Peter Saint-Andre
> email/jabber: stpeter at jabber.org
> web: http://www.saint-andre.com/
> 
> 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
> > > 
> > > --
> > > Peter Saint-Andre
> > > email/jabber: stpeter at jabber.org
> > > web: http://www.saint-andre.com/
> > > 
> > > 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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