Re: GNOME Development Series Snapshot 2.3.0: "Mighty Atom"

[Mikael Hallendal <micke codefactory se>]

sön 2003-04-13 klockan 00.09 skrev Alan Johnson:
> > And how would a user that doesn't know anything about different IM
> > protocols choose? Should they just pick on randomly?
> 
> It doesn't seem like that user would be on IM very long.  Who would they
> talk to?

1) There are a lot of users just connecting and chatting with random 
   people.

2) They might have friends that they all come up with the idea that they
   want to keep in touch over IM. Better if they all choose Jabber than 
   they all choosing MSN.

3) They might want to get in contact with someone else in GNOME. If they
   know his Jabber ID they just have to chat away. Sure the person in 
   GNOME might not use Jabber but some other protocol and then they
   would have to do as much job as they would have to if they had
   choosen the wrong protocol from the start.

Lots of my friends have multiple clients to be able to talk to different
friends. Quite a few of my friends started with IM just to be able to
keep in contact with each other. Some happened to choose MSN just
because it was right there on there machines (these users we want to
start using Jabber instead).

GNOME will hopefully often be deployed in company networks where you are
interested to talk to your collegues. It's better to default to one
protocol here and we should push for that protocol to be Jabber.

Regards,
  Mikael Hallendal

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