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

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

Jonty spake unto us the following wisdom:
> 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.
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> 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.

The point is that that *is* a special case.  Why should google talk
have a special-case string in the Jabber prpl, when thousands of other
jabber servers out there do not?

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

I think the perception of hassle here is skewed.  We really get
comparatively few questions about this.  Maybe there are a lot of
users out there who simply don't know to ask about it, but I doubt
this is the case...

Ethan

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