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

[Stephen E. <spe...@gm...>]

Well, by the looks of it, it seems that what Gaim really needs is a kind of
"New Account Wizard", where those explanations and default settings would
exist, to make life simpler for new users. If such wizard existed, it would
make perfect sense to include a GTalk option, with the required
explanations, if need be. It would still be a Jabber server getting special
treatment, however.

I don't think that advanced users that know just what the heck Jabber is
need any more popups...


Stephen


On 6/17/06, Tim Ringenbach <tim...@ep...> wrote:
>
> Luke Schierer wrote:
>
> > This weekend, I was at a birthday party, and a room full of people
> >
> >tried to insist that google talk was not jabber.  This is a problem,
> >because it means that they will have no chance at understanding the
> >connection between "services and software that does not suck" and the
> >open standards (which google admittedly seems to play fast and loose
> >with) of jabber.
> >
> >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.
> >
> >I don't want to see this happen.  I don't want to enable this sort of
> >confusion, I don't want to have users who can't handle the fact that
> >google is jabber.
> >
> >
>
> That has the problem that people who don't realize GTalk is Jabber, won't.
> If you really want to point it out to people, why not add a GTalk option
> to the dropdown. Upon selecting GTalk, Jabber is selected, maybe with
> some default options changed if that is still needed (sounds like it
> isn't in Gaim 2.0.0?). Just to make it really explicit, we could pop up
> dialog explaining why when they choose GTalk the selector magicly
> changes to Jabber. This would go a lot further to changing perceptions
> then just expecting the user to know (at which point someone else must
> have already changed his perceptions).
>
> --Tim
>
>
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