I think I lost track of the original message that started referencing the options according to letters :)

I'd like to suggest an end alltogether of all-in-one communication clients. It may fit a Windows-style mode for use, but it contradicts one of the more elegant and sensible parts of the Unix philosophy, that being one application per task.

Anyway what I'm getting at is in order to facilitate simplicity I think it might be helpful to talk about these things in terms of protocols or types of delivery that Tails wants to prioritize (rather than using client examples as the article of dialogue), and then choose a discrete and simple client for each, which will probably change of course as time goes by; ideally the protocols Tails supports in one way or another will not.

Using this perspective, it looks to me as if there are really only a grand total of four clients needed here: SMTP, XMPP, IRC, and some form of serverless system.

Is this thought disruptive in a good way or bad? It just doesn't seem like the hunt for an all-in-one client is going to be a good design choice in the long run, especially when individual clients can come relatively cheap size and code-wise.

gl



On 2016-01-27 10:01, intrigeri wrote:
sycamoreone wrote (26 Jan 2016 22:03:00 GMT) :
sajolida:
intrigeri:
I am also for keeping D separately. But the blueprint should document
the use-cases A, B, C, and E that Pidgin and its potential replacement
should address. And also the use-case D that it need not.

Yes. I see that it's been done already (with a new
nomenclature), cool!

> I don't know of any tool that provides D _and_ another one among A,
> B and C. So for the moment, I think that D should be solved separately.

Exactly.

Yes.

I'm glad we agree on dealing with D separatedly.

Cheers!
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