Andoni

@ Porru @lemmy.eus

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6 yr. ago

GNU/Linux erabiltzailea, musikaria, soinu teknikaria, itzultzailea, esperantista, antiespezista, anarkista ta holako etiketa gehio

5y ago

People need a new modern looking XMPP client, and I want to develop it
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Andoni @lemmy.eus 5y ago
Anyway, I see that it only can be used for their servers, and not a self one.

5y ago

People need a new modern looking XMPP client, and I want to develop it

I know, but what can I do if I have needs and ideas as user, but cannot currently develop them? Maybe after some time learning (I have not much time for that) I could, but it's always good asking for help!

5y ago

People need a new modern looking XMPP client, and I want to develop it

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Andoni @lemmy.eus 5y ago

Yeah, I thought that the people who renewed K9 Mail's interface could make that too for Conversations, that would be great!

5y ago

People need a new modern looking XMPP client, and I want to develop it

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Andoni @lemmy.eus 5y ago

Yeah, I first (months ago) tried to contribute to some such projects as Blabber, but they didn't go into implementing my proposal, whether because they didn't want to focus their project in that way, whether because it was actually difficult implementing my proposals due to the current code-structure their projects have

I didn't know about the new UI for Gajim, and I really like it, thanks for telling about it!

Conversations and all its forks are good in fact, but they lack a modern/comfortable user interface and functionalities:

how to quote messages
jumping to quoted messages when taping the quotes
treating quotes as unmodifiable elements (currently user can change the quote's content)
render/format the quote while writing message (instead of showing "> ")
emoji access
unique emoji pack, not system's
when searching for messages, showing the results in chat-context
let adding more accounts (only for Blabber.im)
the way multiple accounts are managed (currently all chats from different accounts are put together)
an introductory explanation about what is XMPP, comparing it to email
giving as secondary option creating an account on their project server and as first using any instance (currently the order is inverse)
playing audio recordings having the device stuck to the ear (currently this is not possible)
having message option pop-up dialogs on short tap, instead of long press
navigating into chat multimedia jumping from archive to archive, without needing to go back and forward
ability to select and copy text, not whole message, from a message
some internationalization problems
...

I believe that some clients have implemented them, and I don't know them. I didn't use Movim until now because it doesn't work to me well (I can't still add a node of my choice).

The reason I thought about creating a client from scratch is to avoid problems that appear when you use another's base: they limit what can you do.

5y ago

People need a new modern looking XMPP client, and I want to develop it

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Andoni @lemmy.eus 5y ago

hahah, that's good! Still, I'm not proposing a new protocol, just another way that will fit someones' needs to use the same protocols, while others will keep using the same clients as now.