Re: [Gaim-devel] Making it easier to add GTalk accounts by prepopulating the server settings fields

[Ethan B. <ebl...@cs...>]

Jason Spiro spake unto us the following wisdom:
> It is too hard to add GTalk accounts to gaim. I always end up having to
> google for the help page with the server settings listed on it. Could
> Gaim prepopulate the Jabber advanced server settings fields as soon as
> someone enters a som...@gm... Jabber ID?

No.  With the 2.0 betas, Gaim understand DNS SRV records, which means
that all of this happens automatically.  Fixing it in this manner is
far superior to special-casing a particular jabber server.  I suspect
that more non-Google-Talk jabber servers are in use with Gaim than
Google Talk is.

> Also, to make things easier for newbies who don't know what Jabber even
> is, could the display name of the Jabber plugin be renamed to "Jabber /
> Google Talk"? The majority of Jabber users use Google Talk as their
> Jabber server anyway. And the easier to use Gaim is, the more people
> will use it (and perhaps even the more people will switch to Linux).

This is likewise a bad idea.  I strongly suspect that your assertion
that the "majority" of jabber users are Google Talk users is false, at
least at this point in time.  There are an awful lot of organizational
jabber servers running around out there.

Ethan

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