[JDEV] How should a good client have to look like

[Julian Missig]

While giving general suggestions and overall opinions and such may keep
conversations going, it's not particularly productive. I think a lot of
people know that these things are needed.

If you *really* want to see Jabber clients improve, I highly suggest
filing bugs against the clients which don't do things the way you think
they should. Not only will it start get the ball rolling on conversation
(especially if you file a bug *and* post a mailing message saying "hey,
I just filed this wishlist bug against client xxx because I think it
should do yyy"), but it won't go away easily. As long as the bug list is
there and the client authors look at the bug list, they'll be reminded
of your request.

So get your friends to try Jabber clients. If they find things they want
or don't like, either get them to file a wishlist bug (feature request),
or do so yourself. I can assure you any decent client author would
appreciate it :)

Julian

On Wed, 2002-04-17 at 19:57, Mattias Campe wrote:
> The one thing I want the most is to have a good working bugfree Jabber 
> client. Not an overfeatured one (like ICQ), but one with, next to the 
> normal features:
> 
> * good, stable (resumable) file transfer that also works for big files
> 
> * good notification when a message arrives (I liked the notification of 
> ICQ a lot!)
> 
> * broadcast message to a group
> 
> I tried to convince some people of using Jabber and the things I 
> mentioned above were the ones that were talked most about. I have the 
> patience to wait for "my" good client, but a lot of the people I tried 
> to convince don't :( . They liked the idea of an open source IM-system, 
> but they can't live without a good Jabber client.
> 
> What other (windows-)people like a lot is (/me does not care):
> 
> * emoticons: as much as their computer can store ;-)
>   (also see: "[JDEV] Emoticons: guidelines"
> 
> * File sharing. Although I totally dislike this feature of ICQ, people 
> find it handy to be able to transfer and share files. Personally I hate 
> it when people are downloading stuff from my computer and I don't know 
> who or what. I must say that I don't know how things would be solved 
> when one client supports file sharing and the other doesn't. Does the 
> Jabber protocol itself supports file sharing?
> 
> 
> What do you think yourself?
> 
> greetz
> .m.
> aka (c)obnet
> 
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