[Hamara-devel] Hamara Mate Meta

[Jonas Smedegaard]

Quoting Pirate Praveen (2016-09-10 08:28:06)
> On 2016, സെപ്റ്റംബർ 9 11:49:13 PM IST, Jonas Smedegaard <dr at jones.dk> 
> wrote:
>>Quoting abhijith (2016-09-09 17:20:02)
>>> Which chat client should we use on hamara mate - Pidgin, Empathy or 
>>> Gajim?
>>> 
>>> Praveen had once recommended Gajim. So I have put it for now.
>>
>>Gajim supports only Jabber, I believe, whereas both of the other 
>>contenders are multi-protocol.
>
> I recommended Gajim, because its the only client that supports OMEMO 
> on the desktop. But yes, its jabber only, so pidgin or empathy may be 
> better suited as default. Jabber support is mostly neglected on both 
> though. No new features and even patches don't get merged.

Thanks for elaborating.

Ahh - OMEMO seems the successor of multi-party off-the-record which I 
had in mind in my previous post, so that remark seems spot on.

I met Nadim (author of Cryptocat) a few years ago - we worked together 
for a weekend at a hacking session in New York, and went out to an 
electronica concert together afterwards.  So what I know about Cryptocat 
I have not only from the source, but from picking the brain of the 
author :-)

He and Jacob Applebaum tried to convince me to package Cryptocat for 
Debian, but I strongly disliked its approach as a web client.  I now 
notice now at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptocat that Cryptocat has 
been reimplemented as a proper desktop client.  Time to reconsider 
packaging it - thanks for making me revisit it, Praveen!


 - Jonas

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