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

[Mark D. <ma...@ki...>]

On Fri, 16 Jun 2006 14:18:07 +0000 (UTC), Jason Spiro wrote
> 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?
> 
> 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).

I'm actually in favor of showing a dummy "Google Talk" protocol in the list of
accounts when someone adds an account.  There have been a lot of questions
about using Google Talk in Gaim.  Having a simpler way to add a Google Talk
account would probably eliminate some of the confusion.

-Mark