David Woodhouse <[email protected]> wrote: >> Or be a better alternative to Empathy for rooms, leaving Empathy (or >> eventually, Contacts + Shell, I guess) for IM. > > That seems like confusing balkanisation to me.
The usage patterns for IRC are different from regular IM (passive presence in many "always on" channels vs. active participation in a smaller number of temporally specific conversations). You can't support both with the same UI (I know, I've tried to design such a thing). > So if I'm having a > conversation in an IRC channel with someone, and we decide to take it > *off* the channel to private messages, it suddenly ends up in a > different app altogether? ... No. Please check the mockups [1] - private messages are handled in Polari (in a similar fashion to other IRC clients, like XChat). There's nothing radically new here - IRC and IM clients frequently coexist without any problems. This feature is simply intended to provide a better IRC client for GNOME. Allan [1] https://wiki.gnome.org/Design/Apps/Potential/Polari#Tentative_Design _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
