From: Etan R. <de...@ed...> - 2006-11-14 12:55:43
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On Mon, 13 Nov 2006, Sean Egan wrote: > On 11/13/06, Gary Kramlich <gr...@re...> wrote: >> Indeed. Just make sure Jabber get's hit as well, but I'm sure I don't >> need to remind you of that :) > > I'm not going to do this unless there's a clear consensus from the > list, but there are definitely a few major advantages to doing so. > People will realize it exists and stop e-mailing us, and we have a > place to add a bunch of custom Google extensions: an account option > for "Save chats in Gmail," support for "off the record", Gmail > notification, etc. For the record, I very much dislike the idea of having a special Google Talk protocol. Part of the point of using a standard protocol (at least as far as I am concerned) is that you don't require special clients, and if you are just going to get special clients on top of a standard protocol and no one is really going to understand what you tried to do I think it largely defeats the purpose. That being said I will not (and can't really) stop people from making the change if that is what gets decided, but I think it's a bad idea. As for the Google specific extensions, they should be detectable as stream (or other) features, which means gaim can turn the right bits on in the right jabber structs so we can stick those options in the account actions menus, the blist right-click menus, we can find a place for them in the conversation windows, and hopefully I'll get back to my chat room user patch and then we'll be able to have them in the right-click menus in the chat room user list and on nicknames in chat rooms. So I see no real need for special casing for those settings (unless we want to put them in the Modify Account dialog specifically, and I'm not sure that gains us much for most settings, and might even argue we should move similar settings for the other protocols out of there). -Etan |