[jdev] Open src implemention of Jabber Client, which is best?

Norman Rasmussen norman at rasmussen.co.za
Wed Nov 23 06:49:42 CST 2005


agreed, tcl/tk looks ugly.  gtk is fairly ugly too.  Only really Qt is
starting to look pretty.  (under win32).  Notice Java dropped their
horrid Swing toolkit in preference for native widgets (which makes
apps like Azeureus look practically native)

On 11/23/05, Pieter Barrezeele <macbar at fab4.be> wrote:
>
> On 22 Nov 2005, at 11:34 PM, Sander Devrieze wrote:
>
> > Op maandag 21 november 2005 00:32, schreef Hal Rottenberg:
> >>>>     I need one written in java ,but in the jabber.org lists, I just
> >>>> found jeti is not bad.
> >>>
> >>> JBother maybe?
> >>
> >> JBother would be a good choice.  I was particularly flattered that it
> >> has a Psi iconset included.  :)
> >
> > Look at Coccinella cvs ( http://hem.fyristorg.com/matben/ ). Yes,
> > it is only a
> > matter of time until Coccinella will replace Psi as the default Jabber
> > client :-p (I hope ;-) ).
>
> Ugh, once more we are confronted with the ugliness of some Linux UI
> toolkits.
> Jabber-wise you can dismiss this post as a rant, but with an
> interface like this, you'll never get to warm up people for this
> particular software, no matter how many features it has...
>
> Pieter.
>
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> Pieter Barrezeele                        email:       macbar at fab4.be
>                                          jabber:       macbar at fab4.be
>                                      Unix sysadmin, Linux enthousiast
>
> If Windows is the solution, please give me my problem back
>
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>
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