Hello, I was thinking this way: There are apearing some applications that do some tasks and their primary purpose is not comunication. However, they comunicate using jabber. (inkskape for example, if I remember well). Users want games in IM clients, which has nothing to do with IM. UNIX filosophy tells to separate different tasks into separate programs. So yes, it would be possible to separate the games into different programs, which would be just called from the client with right info (where to connect, which user try to contact and everything).
However, this would mean the game mush have full supprt for things like XML parsing, SASL, TLS and everything. It would mean another connection to server as well, which would mean more load on server, need to keep the connection using whitespace pings (which means more pings with more connections) and another resource appears for other users. So I was thinking about something like is X server. On a user login, it would start and connect and provided kind of user proxy for all his application, making it only one connecion and making the life for applications a bit easier by handling the SASL, TLS, transparent merging of more accounts together, and more extensions like file transfers, jingle and so on. It would mean even transparent handling of history, regardless if it is server-side or client-side, support of new features for application which did not have it before (like it would be possible to add encrypted sessions to all applications without them knowing about it, for example). Another advantage would be, if the graphic frontend crashed (and the graphic application tend to do so more oftenly then simple text ones, I don't know why), you would not lose your last messages and messages got on the last moment, you could just start the app again and it would get them, and other users would not even know something happend to you. Of course, the design would need to be done more properly, but I wanted someone to comment on this a bit, if it is a good idea. I'm sending it here, because I think it has nothing to do with standards, it is just another way for a design for client software. If you think otherwise, I appologise and would move it to better mail list. Thank you. -- NAT should extinkt like dinosaurs did. Michal Vaner (Vorner)
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