On Mon, 24 Mar 2014 15:15:25 +0100 Christoph Lohmann <2...@r-36.net> wrote:
> Just look at how it’s done in bitlbee. You have the tox account and > there are users you open queries to. Just look at how different IRC can > be represented in pidgin and regular IRC clients like irssi. So it’s > just a marginal difference in where to place the name and where to navi‐ > gate to to manage contacts. Ok, thanks for clearing that up. > This is not a client for a mass market, but the masses can’t be saved. > They can only be controlled by a different master. Free software can be popularized, but only if there is a big company behind it (see Google). The fact they gave up XMPP for Gmail shows that it is a company after all. There are only a few cases I can recall where free software really beat proprietary software (encryption, partly office, web-frameworks, CMS), and in all cases, it was due to the ability to interface the software with the users in a way it was done with the proprietary before or where it was just necessary. > What you should work on is: > 1.) Implement the tox protocol directly or via the API in bitlbee. > 2.) Think of and implement a way to handle voice/video via DCC and implement > this as a handler in for example irssi. > 3.) Add this DCC ability to all other protocols in bitlbee, which have some > extension for this. > > You really help all of us more by following these steps. Developing software is partly about personal preference. As I can't identify with bitlbee's concept as much as just using a dedicated client for each job (which is imho closer to the Unix-philosophy), I wouldn't be really dedicated to work on this implementation. It's in my interest to develop a client also favorable for intermediate users. I think developing this kind of piece of software would bring the suckless-philosophy closer to a bigger audience (and most probably developers waiting to become professionals). Cheers FRIGN -- FRIGN <d...@frign.de>
