On Fri, 2003-01-31 at 04:55, Ben Reser wrote: > Part of the issue too is that IM clients under Linux have had a history > of being broken. If Protocol A is broken on one client it may work on > another better. Support for various protocols and their functionality > differs greatly between programs.
This is an important point. Protocols have a tendency of changing to try and lock third-party clients out every now and again, and as Ben says, we have more redundancy against this with lots of clients. > Ultimately, we're in a situation where none of these apps are really > best of breed. They all have their trade offs, so I would error on the > side of being overly inclusive in this situation than not. I don't know about gaim not being designed for multiple protocols. It can be a bit of a pain to set them all up originally, loading the appropriate plugins then adding accounts, but once you've done that you can set them all to autologin. I have all my conversations on all networks set to appear in one tabbed window, I hardly notice what network other people are on any more. -- adamw
