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

[Sean E. <sea...@gm...>]

On 6/16/06, Mark Doliner <ma...@ki...> wrote:
> 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'm against this too, mostly for the reasons Luke gives. Also, there's
no actually good "default" settings for Google Talk. Google Talk hosts
the gmail.com domain, the googlemail.com domain, and a number of other
domains in the hosted domains (https://www.google.com/hosted/)
program; a Google Talk user would still have to enter the same exact
information in either case, so it's really just a matter of whether
it's more important to realize that Gaim supports Google Talk, or that
Google Talk supports Gaim. I'd prefer the latter.

-s.