Re: The noninclusion of Gaim

[Sean Egan <sean egan binghamton edu>]

On Fri, 2003-10-10 at 18:48, Mark Finlay wrote:
> 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

But it does have a nice five year head start.

> Even if gaim maintainers could be convinced to move to Gnome cvs etc...

You'd be very hard pressed to convince us to move to GNOME CVS.  We've
been with Sourceforge for years, and they've been very good to us.  We
don't want to abandon them.

> 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

I use Gaim and GNOME all the time and think they "fit in" together very
well.  Gaim follows the GNOME HIG very well, follows appropriate
freedesktop.org specifications.  I'd be interested in hearing what needs
to be "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.

Good luck, then.

-s.