Re: EB-lite feature requests
"Toby A Inkster" <[email protected]>
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On Fri, 07 Mar 2003 21:48:42 +0000, Meredydd Luff wrote: > Right, I have a little time for EB-lite again. I'd just like to poll the > members of this list - which features do you reeally really want next in > EB-lite? How many features would you deem necessary before it's a viable > alternative to old EB? 1. Non-interactive command line clients. Something like: eb-sendmsg [OPTIONS] CONTACT MESSAGE Sends a message to a contact. Options: -p PROTOCOL Use PROTOCOL to send message -o Only send if contact is online -f FILE Read message from plain text file FILE eb-sendfile [OPTIONS] CONTACT FILE1 [FILE2 [FILE3 [...]]] Transfer a file to a contact. Options: -p PROTOCOL Use PROTOCOL to send message -o Only send if contact is online eb-status [OPTIONS] CONTACT Checks if a contact is online or not. Options: -p PROTOCOL Such things would make it much easier for me to debug my slowly-evolving Perl module for eb-lite. They'd also be handy for adding IM abilities to cron jobs, etc. Could be a new niche for Everybuddy! 2. GTK (preferably GTK 2.2) interface. 3. Unix "talk" support. I had a look at how viable adding this to the old Everybuddy would be, but the protocol is so horrible and convoluted that I wouldn't even begin to know how to implement it. 4. Porting of the protocols currently not supported in eb-lite. Is Jabber still one of these? -- Toby A Inkster BSc (Hons) ARCS | mailto:[email protected] | pgp:0x6A2A7D39 aim:inka80 | icq:6622880 | yahoo:tobyink | jabber:[email protected] http://www.goddamn.co.uk/tobyink/ | "You've got spam!" playing://coldplay/a_rush_of_blood_to_the_head/08_warning_sign.ogg