hi,
(eim = enlightenment instant messenger)?
About the modularity of the backend, i'm agree with you that it should be modular. But one thing at a time :p
right. but modularity has to start at the very beginning ;)
About express, it seems interesting, in fact i'm really poor in frontend ... so it's a good occasion to gather ours efforts.
I agree and I am keen on having a good instant messenger. 'good' includes for me:
* pretty and themeable layout (something like transparent message boxes, similar to erss, enlightenments rss-reader)
* configurability (like micq or something like that. this would include a full control interface for external programs or scripts to be able to access incoming messages in realtime)
* modularity (it would be very nice, if this went so far, that you could even use a command-line frontend instead of a gui. this would probably merge with the interface for external programs.)
* easy and quick configurability (with one to three clicks instead of editing huge config files; especially concerning the organization of the buddy list)
* it should support at least icq and better also aim. where is jabber used?
I've not lots of time because i'm phd student but i'm very interesting to create an IM supporting the Jabber protocol.
for me it's the very same, i suppose.
So if you're interested and motivated we should create a mailing list and why not a little website to do the roadmap.
sounds great! who will do it?
Take a look at the code in cvs. its fairly clean, and takes care of some of the basic interface needs (representing buddies, conversations, and messages).
I tried it out, but I was unable to start a (fake) conversation.
perhaps we should think of speaking with authors of other instant messengers, as we could learn from their experience.
holger.
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