I will echo this feeling. Jarl has basically the same functionality. At one point it had real support, but it is very annoying to be chatting with someone and have a new window popup for them to say one line before they bounce back to their other client.
It's far better to just dump all of the chats from a person into the same window. Better for conversation threads and better for screen clutter. IMHO, the only useful place for the <thread/> tag is in normal messages where (like email) you can create a thread of messages. But in chat, it's hard to carry on two conversations at one time. Peter Millard wrote: > Ulrich Staudinger wrote: > >>Aeh .... i just want to annotate that some listed clients definitely >>don't support Basic chat fully (as indicated). In fact most of the >>clients listed don't support threads, thus making multiple >>communication with the same person/bot impossible (i tested this >>myself). > > > Ulrich - > > Have you found that people actually want this functionality?? I had threads > properly implemented in Winjab a _LONG_ time ago, and every single user > complained about it. "Why does a new window open up???". This was mostly > because other clients were not echo'ing my thread tag back. Thus, you end up > having a "bucket" chat window which receives all messages which have a blank > thread. Most of this could be avoided if the <thread> tag was mandatory for > message type="chat" packets. I've long since gotten away from the idea of > trying to implement threads "properly" because of these reasons (other > clients).... Mostly, I just echo the last thread, and generate one when a > new conversation starts. > > On a related note, many clients don't handle chatting w/ multiple resources > very well either. Again, this is an "edge case" IMO, but once that can be > important in certain vertical market applications. > > pgm. > > > _______________________________________________ > jdev mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mailman.jabber.org/listinfo/jdev -- Ryan Eatmon [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ jdev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.jabber.org/listinfo/jdev
