I am interesting in hearing from a developer or someone familiar with the
source code who can help me modify the source code of Gaim to update the
protocol interface.
Or alternatively, someone who can help me modify Pidgin to restore the old
Gaim platform of creating child windows which the user must close to allow
for email notification; as well as modifying the code to restore the old
look and feel of Gaim.
Please do not respond unless you can provide exactly what I am asking
for. And please do not ask why I am asking for what I am asking. This
community has demonstrated that it is not open to the needs of all of the
potential users. My hope here is that I can find a developer or someone
familiar with the source code who can help me modify the source code of
Pidgin to allow reversion to the old platform which performed better in
that it didn't assume a user was always looking at the screen to see
notifications of email; or modify Gaim so that it better interfaces with
the new changes to YIM protocol.
And before anyone gets snippy with me again, please note that my efforts
here can only serve to benefit the larger community of users. I am unlike
many people who don't like how the software was changed. Rather than
simply discarding it for another piece of software that does what I want
and need it to do - as I know many people have done whom I have chatted
with; I am attempting to make the community aware of the needs of
users. If this community cannot accept my methods for what they are, then
I would strongly suggestion that you rethink the very foundation of your
involvement in the open source community. Understand that if I still had
the capability to simply take apart the source code, modify it to my needs,
and recompile it as I used to be able to do; I wouldn't be here asking for
help, I'd be doing it, and releasing it as a modification under GNU.
Please also understand that if I cannot fix Pidgin or Gaim to work as I
need it to, as it had previously worked for me for the past 4 years; then I
will be forced to abandon Gaim for another client which DOES meet my
needs. Barring that, I may very well tap into my LabVIEW resources and
experience and write a client for myself - I still have the infrastructure
from when I was dabbling in YIM protocol, so I should be able to build on it.
By the way, I hope everyone here can consider how newcomers to the open
source community might interpret the responses I have received thus
far. If the open source community fails to respond to the needs of users,
and treats those who have needs different than what is "popular," consider
that observers might not want to join such a community, and may well go off
on their own and just out of spite, write their own software, and sell it
to people who will appreciate it. After all, what good is open source if
it doesn't meet the needs of as broad a range of users as possible, but
rather, like Microsoft, attempts to force people to follow the whims of the
community?
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