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Re: and Jabber ?
by Mark Hannessen on Sunday 22/May/2005, @03:09

I tried building a jabber server with an msn and icq backend.
and actually got it running after some experimenting.
but the contactlist names imported by the transport looked real ugly.
in my memory it looked something like user%domain@jabberserver.com
I wasn't able to find out how to get it to display it by nickname.
that that is where I largely stopped using jabber.

another feature I greatly missed is the feature that allows you to see when another person is typing. I somehow seemed to got addicted to that...

webcam and voice support sure are things that would be really nice to have too, but since no IM under linux supports that at all I am not gonne bitch about that. I don't think that should be routed through the jabber server anyway, but it would be nice to have a jabber client that would support an easy way to get an video/voice link between jabber contacts.

all in all I think that jabber is a very neat solution.
it just isn't entirely there yet.

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Re: and Jabber ?
by tigloo on Sunday 22/May/2005, @04:05

I don't use the MSN transport but you can always rename the contacts. Most clients (as well as Kopete) automatically suggest an appropriate nickname, so you don't even have to do it yourself.

Typing notifications are supported by Jabber.

Voice and video chat are not implemented in Jabber yet. An attempt has been made but work on the protocol has been suspended for the moment. Eventually Kopete will have a solution for this.

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