Re: [Gaim-devel] Re: Gaim-devel digest, Vol 1 #95 - 4 msgs

[Evan D. <ev...@ca...>]

On Fri, 2002-11-15 at 10:56, Ethan Blanton wrote:
> (Bringing this back to gaim-devel, I hope you don't mind.)
> 
> Scott spake unto us the following wisdom:
> > The presence bar is a pull down menu allowing you to select
> > different away 'types' (in gabber: "Available", "Free to Chat",
> > "Away", "Extended Away", "Busy", and "Invisible").  In Gaim, the
> > functionality of the button bar is all replicated elsewhere, and is
> > wasted space, imo.  Currently when you are 'away', you get a text
> > dialog with your away message and a button saying 'I'm Back' which
> > again imo, is annoying and can get lost amongst a myriad of
> > windows.  It would be more tidy to have the pulldown menu to select
> > and see your 'presence' at a glance in the gaim window.

If you are using Gnome (or KDE, as I understand it) you should consider
loading the "Tray Icon" plugin. You'll need to be running CVS Gaim.
Right clicking on the tray icon (a.k.a. docklet) provides a list of
common tasks, and if you are away, "Back" is one of them. 

> OpenSSL cannot be integrated
> into a GPL'd program without the consent of every developer who has
> ever committed a patch, which is impossible for gaim, and there
> doesn't seem to be a clear and available alternative with a more
> compatible license.

I think this issue could be avoided if the Jabber-SSL was released as a
plugin. Didn't Mozilla do that for a while?

Doesn't gaim-e work with Jabber anyway? I understand that not everyone
runs Gaim, but with the Windows client on the way and the problems with
OpenSSL, that may be the simple solution. :)

-- 
Evan Doughty
ev...@ca...