[646] in Athena User Interface
Re: Gnome Chat Client
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Cattey)
Wed Jan 24 18:04:58 2001
Message-ID: <4uPpyLlz00010iAZ5D@mit.edu>
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 23:04:55 +0000 ()
From: Bill Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>
To: aui@MIT.EDU, henryst@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: <3A4A5D3C.7F6CEC5E@mit.edu>
Henry:
I was going through old email, and it was unclear to me if anyone ever
got back to you on your suggestion to use Jabber as a Zephyr replacement.
That course of action was evaluated and the reason why it was deemed not
a good idea is documented in transaction 165 in the AUI discuss meeting:
http://diswww.mit.edu/cgi-bin/disweb.cgi/menelaus/aui/165
That review inspired some ideas for a GTK-based Zephyr client.
There is, in fact, a student working on g-zephyr. It's not a documented
deliverable for the AUI project because it was agreed that an improved
zephyr client, as strongly desirable as it is, was not a drop dead
requirement for the success of the AUI project.
I am hopeful that g-zephyr will get finished and deployed either
coincident with, or shortly after the official roll-out of the required
AUI functionality in July of this year.
Thanks muchly for your suggestion. I apologize if nobody did get back
to you about it. (We're always getting ourselves swamped in coding and
debugging so we too often forget to communicate with the outside world.)
I hope you find the evaluation in the AUI discuss meeting a fair review
of the various alternatives.
I ALSO hope that the subset of all AUI possiblities that we DO manage to
ship end up being acceptable to you.
-Bill Cattey
former AUI project leader,
now AUI champion, politician, and spin doctor. :-)
