[haiku] Re: Connecting the Community with BeShare
- From: Rimas Kudelis <rq@xxxxxx>
- To: haiku@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2012 18:50:17 +0200
Hi,
2012.03.11 18:11, Jimmy rašė:
Rimas,
BeShare isn't dead, just lacks users... The goal here is to have a
unified app, preferably included in R1, for the community to connect
to. What are the advantages of XMPP?
Ability to chat to friends using Google talk, Facebook (I guess) and a
bunch of the users of other servers/services. XMPP servers can also
provide ICQ, MSN, YIM, IRC, you-name-it gateways, empowering their users
to log in once and see friends from all other proprietary networks.
I've never used it.. I tried "Chat" from haikuware, but it doesn't
seem user friendly.. Do you know a good XMPP client to use?
For Haiku, not sure. I have Caya [1] installed on my Haiku, but I don't
really use Haiku for work, so I can't say how good it is in your terms.
Back in the day, I was using Jabber For Beos, which was shareware, but
has been open-sourced later [2]. However, its development seems to have
stalled (although it looks like at least one of its developers is now
working on Caya).
The Chat app you mentioned [3] also looks like a decent client, at least
from the screenshot on its page. :) I don't know what you find
non-user-friendly in it, but I have a theory: even though IM protocols
often provide both user-to-user chat and groupchat abilities, for some
reason, clients often focus on one of these aspects, making the other
secondary. For example, most popular IRC clients focus on groupchat,
meanwhile apps like Skype and all XMPP clients I know focus on
user-to-user chat (making rooms harder to discover). Looking at BeShare,
I think that perhaps what you are looking for is an app which focuses on
groupchat? In that case, why not just use Vision IRC client to join
#haiku on FreeNode? IRC still has a plenty of users, you wouldn't feel
alone there, AND there's already a Vision optionalPackage.
[1] http://dev.osdrawer.net/projects/caya
[2] http://dev.osdrawer.net/projects/jabber4beos
[3]
http://haikuware.com/directory/view-details/internet-network/chat-irc/chat
Rimas
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