Julian Missig wrote: > While giving general suggestions and overall opinions and such may keep > conversations going, it's not particularly productive. I think a lot of > people know that these things are needed. > > If you *really* want to see Jabber clients improve, I highly suggest > filing bugs against the clients which don't do things the way you think > they should. Not only will it start get the ball rolling on conversation > (especially if you file a bug *and* post a mailing message saying "hey, > I just filed this wishlist bug against client xxx because I think it > should do yyy"), but it won't go away easily. As long as the bug list is > there and the client authors look at the bug list, they'll be reminded > of your request.
I already do so ;-p I've have a dual boot system and I use linux most of the time. In linux, I use gabber, liking it a lot: I really don't need emoticons. Then, on the other hand, I've got my Windows friends and they do need those emoticons. So I try to follow a Jabber client: Exodus. When a new release comes out, I even restart my computer in Windows to see how it works and then I post bugs and feature requests on the Exodus homepage (name: cobnet). When I'm done I restart again in Linux. I must say that I don't mail to the developer because I think they don't like it. > So get your friends to try Jabber clients. If they find things they want > or don't like, either get them to file a wishlist bug (feature request), > or do so yourself. I can assure you any decent client author would > appreciate it :) I already did: I convinced some people to try Winjab, Exodus and Shaolo and asked them what they miss in the program. It almost always came back to the things I wrote in my post. Sorry, but I can't e-mail all of the developers to say what I think. Then I thought "hey, they probabably subscribed to [EMAIL PROTECTED], so I'll have them all... > Julian > > On Wed, 2002-04-17 at 19:57, Mattias Campe wrote: > >>The one thing I want the most is to have a good working bugfree Jabber >>client. Not an overfeatured one (like ICQ), but one with, next to the >>normal features: >> >>* good, stable (resumable) file transfer that also works for big files >> >>* good notification when a message arrives (I liked the notification of >>ICQ a lot!) >> >>* broadcast message to a group >> >>I tried to convince some people of using Jabber and the things I >>mentioned above were the ones that were talked most about. I have the >>patience to wait for "my" good client, but a lot of the people I tried >>to convince don't :( . They liked the idea of an open source IM-system, >>but they can't live without a good Jabber client. >> >>What other (windows-)people like a lot is (/me does not care): >> >>* emoticons: as much as their computer can store ;-) >> (also see: "[JDEV] Emoticons: guidelines" >> >>* File sharing. Although I totally dislike this feature of ICQ, people >>find it handy to be able to transfer and share files. Personally I hate >>it when people are downloading stuff from my computer and I don't know >>who or what. I must say that I don't know how things would be solved >>when one client supports file sharing and the other doesn't. Does the >>Jabber protocol itself supports file sharing? >> >> >>What do you think yourself? >> >>greetz >>.m. >>aka (c)obnet >> >>--- >>http://student.rug.ac.be/astrid/Internet/jabber.php > > > > _______________________________________________ > jdev mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mailman.jabber.org/listinfo/jdev _______________________________________________ jdev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.jabber.org/listinfo/jdev
