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what made you want to write kopete when gaim was still pretty popular? i remember kde switching over to use that as the default around 3.5 not understanding why
by dmead 11y ago
what made you want to write kopete when gaim was still pretty popular? i remember kde switching over to use that as the default around 3.5 not understanding why people didn't like gaim/pidgin anymore.
- dmacvicar 11y agoAt that time, various things: * At that time, most apps where available in their "desktop" versions. So if you used Gnome you tended to use Gnome versions of the app. (it was a silly world back then) * I was starting with development at that time, and the Gnome "SDK" was something I found not appealing at all. It could not even be called a platform, but a random collection of libraries. KDE on the other side was very consistent and appealing for developing GUI apps. (And you may remember the KDE hate about non-standard-C++ and QObject, from the same guys that brought you Vala and GObject later) * I had back then this opinion of not looking at my contact list by IM system, but by person with multiple transports. That followed by KDE addressbook integration, etc. I would guess nowadays Pidgin also has this, but that was new back then. Kopete was a testbed for all this ideas. * GAIM was not very stable back then
- dmead 11y agoneat. you and the BeAim guy should have teamed up.