Perhaps as a first step we can find some agreement about terminology
("roster" vs. "contact list" vs. "buddy list", "transport" vs. "gateway",
etc.)Peter -- Peter Saint-Andre email/jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://www.saint-andre.com/ On Thu, 27 Sep 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > There is so much talk on what a Jabber Client should be, me thinks we should > build a summary of the arguments for future UI reference. And use that to > direct > new UI IM clients as they get started on their journey to swell design. > Any new > UI documents in the works as a response to the first one (which honestly i > enjoyed > reading as an albeit contested guide) ? I would be happy to aggregate the > existing public > discussions, but I think are lots of offline talks going on as well. > > -john > > > > > > Ahh - it all becomes clear. That makes the WinJab a bit less perplexing > > to > > > me. Doesn't suit me at all (but for those who like it that's great). > I'm > > > all for a separate email client - applications should be seperated where > > > possible - it's the OS's job to tie them together. A combined email/IM > > > client means that 50% of it is bloat for anyone who already has an email > > or > > > IM client that they are happy with. > > > > Winjab isn't a IM and an email client... it doesn't do POP, IMAP or SMTP > :) > > But what I meant was that at some point, I could see offline IM msgs being > > used just like email. Hence, the GUI design similar to an email client. > > > > Peter M. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > jdev mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://mailman.jabber.org/listinfo/jdev > > > > _______________________________________________ > jdev mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mailman.jabber.org/listinfo/jdev > _______________________________________________ jdev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.jabber.org/listinfo/jdev
