To the guy who was wondering about ICQ clones, this is something that was forwarded to me from a friend whos involved in the updating process...
peace, Rog ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2001 11:57:27 -0500 Subject: Fwd: Re: Development plan (was Re: [gnomeicu-support] Gnome 2 Port) This is what was sent to the GnomeICU mailing list. I've cut unimportant stuff out. ----- Forwarded message from David NetHunter Tabachnikov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ----- The reason is, that the corrent GTK+ code has started even before GNOME, and it's very messed up, and mixed, (because many things were implemented differently, that were later deprecated by GNOME, etc), so me and Jeremy agreed a while ago, that the only solution is to rewrite the GUI code. And, we'll have to rewrite the settings dialog anyway, since we want a command-center-style prefs dialog. Since a while ago (before I had CVS access) I ported part of GnomeICU to libglade, and it made the application much more responsive, and compact, and the code much nicer and easier to read, I guessed that would be the best choice for rewritting the GUI. But I guess I could agree it's more of a post-1.0 thing. GNet - there aren't many things in common between ICQv5 and earlier, and ICQv7. They are 2 totally different protocols. So to support it, the whole networking layer has to be rewritten. After seeing a number of other GNet based applications, I was rather impressed by this little library, and it seems like it can speed development by far, and make the networking layer more robust. Of course, I could be wrong on all of this. > For the V7 port, I was gonna try to start working on it this weekend. As I > haven't seen David's work, actually, I was gonna start writing it from the > specs and the source of other free clients. We can probably get a good > head start by taking some code from AIM for the base stuff (I dont know > how much we can copy directly, havent looked at it yet...). > ----- End forwarded message -----
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