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

[Jonty <jo...@el...>]

On Fri, 2006-06-16 at 13:03 -0400, Luke Schierer wrote:
> The only way I see to even attempt to counteract this tendency is to
> force that small body of users that look to gaim as their client to
> realize that google talk is jabber.  If we give in and special case
> this, set up a dummy prpl, then even gaim users would be enabled in
> thinking (and insisting) that google talk is not jabber, but is
> google's own invention.

What about changing the protocol selector to "Jabber / gTalk" - that way
there is an implicit declaration that they are the same protocol and
avoids special casing the situation.

For the sake of a small string change, it would save a lot of hassle.

Cheers,
Jonty