On Wed, Apr 01, 2009 at 01:15:55PM +0100, Stéphane Bisinger wrote: > Hi everyone, > it just occurred to me, did you think about the possibility of making > aMSN usable with just command line arguments? I'll elaborate: > CenterIM has this feature that you can run centerim as a background > application (sort of a "server") and then you can use command line > arguments to send messages, change status, etc. (something like echo > "Hello world" | centerim -s msg -p msn -t myfri...@hotmail.com). If > you are wondering about the usefulness of this, I can tell you that > quite some people use centerim this way to get notified about > something on their IM, usually server status updates. > So did you think about this? Do you think it would be helpful? > > -- > Stéphane > Hi
Yes, we thought about it, but a little bit differently... We currently have amsn-remote for amsn 0.x which is kind of the same thing and since amsn2 is supposed to keep the same feature set as amsn1, then i guess it would have to support something like that! Our idea was to have a 'remote-server' front end, which is basically nothing more than a headless f-e that exposes a simple protocol over some socket. Then you would use the 'remote-client' front end on some other machine and you can remote control your connection, see pending messages, etc... I guess a command line version would be interesting to have too, don't know yet how we would design it, but it's definitely a good idea! Do you have any suggestions about the design for this? Maybe allowing front ends to add custom command line options? KaKaRoTo ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Amsn-devel mailing list Amsn-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/amsn-devel
