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

[Benjy G. <ben...@gm...>]

On 6/16/06, Mark Doliner <ma...@ki...> wrote:
> 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.

I think Google is a good special case.  I use MSN all the time, but I
would probably log into Google Talk if it was a snap.  There's only so
much you can care about, and I don't need to know that Jabber and
Google Talk are the same thing or aren't.  I only need to instant
message, so I can get around to more important work.  You can see how
popular Gmail is, so Google Talk is probably going to become just as
popular in time.

Benjy


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