[JDEV] CLIENT DEVELOPERS: How to get your client listed on new jabber.org site...

[Ryan Eatmon]

I will echo this feeling.  Jarl has basically the same functionality. 
At one point it had real support, but it is very annoying to be chatting 
with someone and have a new window popup for them to say one line before 
they bounce back to their other client.

It's far better to just dump all of the chats from a person into the 
same window.  Better for conversation threads and better for screen clutter.

IMHO, the only useful place for the <thread/> tag is in normal messages 
where (like email) you can create a thread of messages.  But in chat, 
it's hard to carry on two conversations at one time.


Peter Millard wrote:
> Ulrich Staudinger wrote:
> 
>>Aeh .... i just want to annotate that some listed clients definitely
>>don't support Basic chat fully (as indicated). In fact most of the
>>clients listed don't support threads, thus making multiple
>>communication with the same person/bot impossible (i tested this
>>myself).
> 
> 
> Ulrich -
> 
> Have you found that people actually want this functionality?? I had threads
> properly implemented in Winjab a _LONG_ time ago, and every single user
> complained about it. "Why does a new window open up???". This was mostly
> because other clients were not echo'ing my thread tag back. Thus, you end up
> having a "bucket" chat window which receives all messages which have a blank
> thread. Most of this could be avoided if the <thread> tag was mandatory for
> message type="chat" packets. I've long since gotten away from the idea of
> trying to implement threads "properly" because of these reasons (other
> clients).... Mostly, I just echo the last thread, and generate one when a
> new conversation starts.
> 
> On a related note, many clients don't handle chatting w/ multiple resources
> very well either. Again, this is an "edge case" IMO, but once that can be
> important in certain vertical market applications.
> 
> pgm.
> 
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Ryan Eatmon
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