On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 09:12:23PM +0200, Mattias Campe wrote: > IMHO, what most of the end users want is: > > 1 multiprotocol, good loking, localized client with basic features > (chat, file transfer, presence) that they can download in 1 click. > > -) Multiprotocol: > *client-side* support for AIM, Yahoo, MSN, ICQ, Jabber
<shameless self promotion> Gaim's Jabber support definitely isn't the best out there, but it's not horrible, and we do AIM, MSN, ICQ, Yahoo, Gadu-Gadu, Zephyr, IRC, even Napster chat, and Trepia support is being worked on for the next release. > -) Good looking: > most of the users are interested in how a client *looks*, not what it > *does*: skins, avatars, emoticons,... Gaim won't ever be skinned (at least not the GTK+ ui for it, anyways) but we do have emoticons and avatars/buddy icons (not for jabber yet, it's on my long TODO). > -) Localized: > they want the client in their *native language*, by downloading *1* file > to have it all Gaim supports 24 different languages/locales, all included in the default install. > -) Basic features: > as I said, most of the users are interested in the looks, not the does. > Still, add 1 more feature to it (next to chat, file transfer, presence) > and their lying at your feet: file sharing. File transfer is the old "standard" in our jabber support, but I'll definitely implement the new standard when it's finalized. > What I don't think they (="most of the users", not all the users) are > interested in is an icq.com-style portal, that's at least what I "feel" > in my group of friends. And I'm living in a building with 200 people > where a lot of them *ask* me about info, because they don't like to look > it up. So, I think they rather expect a client out of the box, without > having to look at any documentation. So, a localized free version of > Trillian which supports Jabber... Gaim seems to fit the bill, as soon as I can add some of the cooler features to our jabber support. The windows port really is coming along nicely, and as soon as the drag-n-drop bug in gtk-win32 is fixed, I'll really be pushing Gaim on my friends, and hopefully talking them into jabber accounts as well. (Until that bug is fixed, you can't re-arrange the order of your contacts) </shameless self promotion> Nathan -- Nathan Walp || [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG Fingerprint: || http://faceprint.com/ 5509 6EF3 928B 2363 9B2B DA17 3E46 2CDC 492D DB7E
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