I slightly prefer IRC, but I'm perfectly happy moving to Jabber. Anyone who uses Gmail might be pleased with a switch to Jabber, I guess.
On Wed, 2006-08-30 at 17:31 -0400, Cristobal Palmer wrote: > I've seen responses for and against Jabber, and I'd like to follow up > on the MUC issue. Somebody mentioned a curses-based MUC client from > google's SOC. Can we get any more info on that? http://www.site.uottawa.ca/~schow031/gaim/ All I can find on the issue. Looks like his code there. I have not tried this at all. Since it is based on libgaim, it should support all the protocols that gaim supports (MSN, AIM, ICQ, Jabber, and a bunch others) >From soc.txt: > Here's a list of some of the stuff > you can do: > > * Add an account > * Sign on/off and set status for the accounts > * Add buddies/groups > * Talk to buddies, join chats > * Create custom statuses > * Enable/disable plugins > * View debugging information in a debug window > * Change some preferences > * Write gnt-specific plugins > > And here's a list of some of the stuff you can NOT do yet (patches welcome!): > > * Add a chat in the buddylist > * Configure the preferences of the plugins (you can configure the prefs of > gnt-specific plugins though) > * Get a list of rooms available for chats > * Add pounces > * Access the account-actions > * View logs (This should be done in accordance with what the SoC projects > regarding logging has done) > * Transfer files > * Do anything about privacy -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/
