[guardian-dev] Moving beyond XMPP

muschel muschel at mail.ru
Sat Dec 7 05:56:04 EST 2013


i send this directly to nathan at first, so here it is again for the mailing list.
@Nathan please ignore the private mail

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hi,

thanks for the answers!
>> a) Fix usability Bugs
>> A lot of them are rather small, but together they are really annoying.
>> Most of them are already in the Bugtracker. This includes stuff like:
>
>We have been working through these for the last year, and are trying to
>accelerate our efforts on them. We closed over 100+ "little" and "big"
>issues in v12, and are doing the same on v13.
yes i noticed that!
But i think it would be better to make the client bug-free and fun to use, before implementing more features.

I convinced some of my friends to use CS and most of them dropped it again (even the nerdy ones).
None of them was complaining about a missing feature, but about crashes and nonworking stuff.
>> -slow reconnection after changing from mobile to Wifi connection
>
>This is highly dependent upon your server, connection, device and radio.
>I personally don't have this problem on Nexus devices. It may also be an
>issue with how we handle XMPP resume, timeouts, etc.
switching from Wifi to mobile happens almost immediatly. Switching from mobile to wifi several takes several minutes.
Also i have two accounts (ccc and dukgo) and there is no difference between those.
>> -You cannot copy all messages
>
>You mean like "Export chat" or "Save log"?
You can copy most messages from the chat by touching them and holding this for some time.
This doesn't work if:
a) There are more than 2 or 3 numbers in a row
b) there is an email adress

Maybe this depends on the Rom i'm using, but CM makes the examples above clickable and you cannot copy it anymore. (Xabber has no problems with this)
>> -There is no easy way to forward contact adresses
>
>What do you mean by this?
I'm adding contact B, which also knows contact A.
So it would be nice, if i could just go to the userinfo of contact A and send the JID to contact B.

Atm i have to type it by hand which is very inconvenient.
>> -Smiley pane should open over the keyboard
>> -Include the Smileys again! No average WA user will search for extra
>> packages and install those
>
>Ha... well, happy you are a smily/emoji fan as I am. I wanted to make
>them a plugin because Google now offers emoji in their own keyboard, and
>so not everyone needs them. We will definitely find a way to feature our
>"plugins and packs" from within the main app.
I personally hate Smileys and i would disable them immediately.
But i often chat with non-nerds. They love Smileys and use them a lot. And they will never ever search and install an extra package.
>> -decrease memory usage
>
>What is your ideal usage? When I look at other apps on my device, we are
>not using significantly more then then.
Sometimes CS memory usage is really nice with with ~10mb, but i'm sometimes at ~35-40mb of ram usage.
WA (shame on me) is between 8 and 20. So this would be my ideal usage.

thanks for reading!
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