On Saturday 21 March 2015 20:23:23 Alexander Potashev wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Do we really need two concurrent products for instant > messaging - Kopete and KDE Telepathy? I don't imply the > answer to be "no" because Kopete may well have strong > advantages over KTP for some users, I just want you to make > sure those advantageous features cannot be implemented in KTP > and that porting and maintaining Kopete is worth those > advantages. > > I believe that getting Kopete to the KF5 world is not just a > one-time task. Kopete is now mature but it won't be the same > after porting, therefore we need an active team of people, > not just one maintainer. > > If you (by "you" I mean the current maintainer primarily) > finally decide to port Kopete to KF5, I suggest you to share > code between Kopete and KTP. For example KTP already > implements a chat window featuring chats in multiple tabs of > its single window that Alexandro asks for. >
Hello Alexander, first feature for multiple tabs is in Kopete for many years. I wrote private email to Alexandro about it. Second, there are still people who use Kopete and this year GSoC shows us that there are still people who would like to improve Kopete! Using KDE telepathy UI in Kopete would mean to rewrite all Kopete libraries, port other stuff, etc. I do not see any reason for it. No benefit. Anyway I do not see anything bad on project which has smaller team of developers with less time as other projects. Some projects are older and converged to some state. But it does not mean that project is dead. And answer to question: Do we really need two concurrent products Are these two projects really concurrent? I was told that KDE Telepathy aims to be simple client for Facebook/Google users. And I'm sure Kopete not. If you accept it or not, there are still developers and users who does not use those products from big corporations. And users who use Kopete for N years, why they should be forced to use another client? Because some upstream KDE developers decided to tell that one application is redundant? I do not think so. But in this thread I would like to discuss about GSoC and student projects. And not about philosophical future questions... -- Pali Rohár pali.ro...@gmail.com
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