[Adium-devl] Fwd: [Adium-feedback] any way to add some of adium's features as a plug in or add on to ichat?

[Evan Schoenberg]

An interesting feedback at adiumx.com email which I thought was worth  
sharing.

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> From: David <d.misc at lifeistolive.com>
> Date: August 7, 2006 7:21:42 PM EDT
> To: feedback at adiumx.com
> Subject: [Adium-feedback] any way to add some of adium's features  
> as a plug in or add on to ichat?
>
> Greetings,
>
> I've been doing a fair bit of research into connecting iChat to MSN
> Messenger, Yahoo Messenger and Google Talk.  It seems that all are
> possible, but the first two in particular are very cumbersome, and
> don't seem to be compatible with the latter (can't log in to two
> jabber accounts at once).
>
> Unfortunately, Adium is not going to be a good long term option for
> me, because I have to be able to have reliable file transfers and
> video chat with my office (where my boss usually is, while I work
> from home or a remote office).  Adium's file transfers are
> unreliable, and video is a long way off.  I see in today's WWDC
> keynote that iChat is introducing a bunch of other new features in
> Leopard, and so it seems a shame to not be able to use those.
>
> So... If it's at all possible to write, then I believe there's a
> market for some sort of add on to iChat that allows really simple
> connection to MSN and Yahoo (and possibly other IM clients).
>
> It occurs to me that you guys have experience and skill in developing
> software that can connect to MSN and Yahoo (because you've written it
> in Adium).  What I want to ask is, is it possible to make some sort
> of plug-in or input manager or any kind of add on to iChat that
> allows it to somehow just seamlessly allow a user to talk with MSN
> and Yahoo buddies, in a similar way that Adium does it.
>
> And if it's possible, can I pay you guys to do it?
>
> I couldn't possibly venture to believe I might have any idea how this
> could be done, but one idea that occurs to me is writing the guts
> behind the other protocols into some sort of background app that
> connects to those protocols, but then allow iChat's user interface to
> manage it.  Just a thought.  But any way that the result can be
> easily achieved would be fine.  Is it possible?
>
> I look forward to hearing back from you with any thoughts you might
> have.
>
> Regards,
>
> David Thorp
>
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