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

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

Benjy Grogan spake unto us the following wisdom:
> On 6/16/06, Ethan Blanton <ebl...@cs...> wrote:
> > 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?
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> Exactly because it is Google.  How many people use Gmail?  In a short
> time they'll all be using Google Talk.  It deserves to have it's own
> special case, so that you can in an instant without looking anything
> up, log into your GTalk account.  They are after all trying to gather
> support for across the board open IM messaging.  I don't know of any
> other special cases that are going to be as popular.  There are no
> downsides to this.

So Google "deserves" a special place in our software simply because
their market share is huge?  I'm sure all the little guys out there
would love to know that.  This is a path we do not want to go down.
The fact of the matter is that it isn't hard at all to configure
Google Talk in Gaim post v1.5.0, and the Google Talk help pages give
explicit instructions for versions before this (we can hope they will
update their instructions when 2.0 is released).

I think your final sentence should read, "If you ignore or dismiss
with non sequitur arguments all of the downsides, none remain."

Ethan

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