On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 09:00:07PM +0200, Daniel Pocock wrote: > A cynical person could also make a counter-strike: display some warning > popup in the regular XMPP clients each time somebody tries to start a > new chat with a user @gmail.com and doesn't receive a response in 2 > minutes. "Warning: the person you have tried to contact uses gmail.com. > It is possible that their account has been migrated to the Hangouts > platform and that Google has silently discarded chats you send them. > Please click here for a help page you can email to your contact to fix > their account."
Equipping XMPP clients with special code to handle gmail accounts is an extremely ugly solution to the problem. Even doing that server-side is slightly better, really. But only slightly.
