Re: The noninclusion of Gaim

[Mark Finlay <sisob tuxfamily org>]

On Fri, 2003-10-10 at 16:44, Sean Egan wrote:
> On Fri, 2003-10-10 at 06:53, Christian Rose wrote:
> > So why, once again, are we even discussing the inclusion of Gaim?
> 
> Because Gaim is unquestionably the best IM client in the world.  

Even assuming that this is true it does not mean that
a) it is the best IM client that will ever be written in gtk
b) it is up to Gnome standards

Even if gaim maintainers could be convinced to move to Gnome cvs etc...
they are not on boards the Gnome philosophy as far as I can tell. Gaim
would really need a massive UI and usability overhaul to "fit in" with
the Gnome desktop IMHO and I don't think that the gaim hackers would be
very open to having their app overhauled.

I think that gaim should be the galeon of IM and for Gnome we need
something that fits in better with the goals of Gnome.

-- 
Mark Finlay 
Computer Science Student

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