Style guide decision needed (was: [Kopete-devel] Bug#40938: behaviour change request)

[Martijn Klingens]

On Sunday 28 April 2002 13:01, Rolf Magnus wrote:
> That's because irc isn't a normal IM protocol. You can either make it
> consistent with all other IRC clients or with all other plugins in kopete,
> but not both. IMHO, irc doesn't belong in kopete at all.

It can be made highly consistent with the rest of Kopete by polling for a 
user's presence and /msg-ing him like you send instant messages over other 
protocols. Channel chats are just multi-user chats as in every other 
protocol.

Except for the actual connection handling code that also means about 99% of 
all IRC code in Kopete would be shared with the rest of the plugins.

Unfortunately Nick doesn't want to go that way, which leads to the current 
'IRC feels out of place' issue in Kopete.

That said, Kopete's irc client is maturing pretty well. Why it is integrated 
in Kopete instead of being an app of its own is still a miracle to me, but 
that doesn't mean the thing itself is bad. Rather the contrary.

Martijn