Bart van Bragt wrote:
While choosing an 'official' client would be counter to the Jabber philosophy, it would be a good idea to recommend a client with a similar UI to each of the legacy IM systems. For example, JAJC closely mimics the ICQ UI, and so would be a good place to point former ICQ users.
From a users point of view this seems to be a good idea.. But....
- It's really very much against the Jabber philosophy :D
- If you give a user a client that looks almost the same then they expect the same.. They expect to see realtime chats from ICQ, the expect the same options, the same away statuses, same menus, etc, etc. Jabber != ICQ so IMO we should pretend to be 'the other systems' :D
- There are multiple clients that resemble a particular legacy IM system, which one should we choose?
- IMO there are much more important aspects in an IM client than resemblance with another program. Stability, feature-richness, completeness, userfriendliness, etc.
IMO it would be best to have an up to date list with clients that include user reviews (that people can make/give on the site), votes from users and download counts. IMO that should be more than enough info for prospect users to make the right choice :D At least to get them started.
Cheers,
Bart
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