aMSN rewrite

[Auria]

so why use gtk if we can do a great contact list like that with Tk

Well actually i really don't care about appearance - why i don't like tk is that on my mac i cannot use aMSN to chat while doing something else because tk slows down to a crawl if it doesn't have the entire RAM and CPU for itself - my computer is not very fast, true, but it's not that slow either. On my Ubuntu dual-boot it's fine though.

Therefore, i am happy of what you are talking about and will not get into language wars

[kakaroto]

ok Auria, but as I said, it's not Tk that makes it slow, it's how WE coded it.. did you try latest SVN ? doesn't the contact list look 100 times faster ? well it's just an example, if we redesign the whole application, the whole application will become faster too!

[v0n0]

Hi Kakaroto, thanks for explanations. I understand we have different point of views. I don't hate interpreted languages, but in this case I'm not likely to use one of them. Users are not forced to compile, since their distro will give to them a binary package. And if your releases are so delayed, users are obliged to use svn version, that is not single-click install!
However I really hope that aMSN will be rewrited in a modular fashion as you say. I'm using svn version since more than a year, I have seen new contact list, but it's still slow as compared with for example Kopete. Maybe Tcl is ok for this work, but surely not Tk. I will choose between writing a GUI for your lib or for Telepathy, I do really like unified and more general projects.
Good work

[kakaroto]

Hello v0n0, thx for the understanding  I understand your point with compiling for distros, but I wasn't talking about that, I was talking about YOU need to compile everytime during development :p
about svn, you use it for a year, how cool is it to just type "svn up" and you're up in any case, you're welcome on the project, whenever you feel like joining us, subscribe to the mailing list and announce yourself. I'm almost finished with the protocol module, fully modular, just as I described earlier.