What's the new shiny feature for this over the more established players? I saw on the notes it mentioned about missed messages and multiple channels - will there be a gnome hosted service that proxies the messages so they're available on reconnect as that would be faaaancy :D On 11 Oct 2013 11:19, "Allan Day" <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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 >
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