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[Samuel Penn]

On Saturday 05 January 2008 17:01:06 Sander Devrieze wrote:
> 2008/1/5, Samuel Penn <sam at glendale.org.uk>:
> > It's not just one list that needs to be maintained though - it's many.
> > When a version of a jabber client is packaged, the developers need to
> > ensure that the list they use is uptodate. A mature client may be
> > stable for a while, and get chosen for inclusion in an OS distribution,
> > which possibly means that the list actually used by users may be a
> > year or two out of date.
>
> The list is fetched from the Net by the client so it will be always
> the latest version. In Coccinella it works like this:
> 1) user starts Coccinella
> 2) setup assistant is started
> 3) setup assistant fetches the list from the jabber.org server
> 4) users sees the list
>
> I guess this is also the way how it works in Kopete.

Kopete just has a free text field for typing in your existing JID.
If you click the button to register, then a new dialog opens with
another free text field for the server name, plus a Choose button.
The latter opens a list of servers, with their name and a description.

Not sure if the list is downloaded, but the descriptions are all
blank, which isn't helpful. There's also a link to a web page at
http://www.jabber.org/network/, which now just refers to a different
page, which has a similar (identical?) list as Kopete, again without
any descriptions. Given how similar the lists are, and the short
delay in populating it in the client, I'm pretty certain Kopete
is downloading it.

IMO, the main issue is that there's no way to make an informed choice
about which server to use. If the description said something about
the server, then that might help.


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