Re: Irssi next generation

On 31.8.2004, at 16:39, Nuutti Kotivuori wrote:

> I've had very similar ideas for quite a while.
>
> The only notable difference was a bit larger scope in my plan.
>
> Multiple networks generalized to multiple connections to all sorts of
> services. Not only IRC and all the IM services, but MUD, Mail, System
> logs, Google searches, whatever. IRC, Mail, HTTP logs and RSS acting
> as a coherent data stream where you can instantly see what interests
> you and interact.

I think these could be plugged into my design as well, but I don't 
think it's necessarily such a good idea. Maybe if you really want to, 
you could show RSS, MUD etc. just as regular messages, but I'd think it 
would be better to have more specialized clients for using them. Of 
course, nothing would prevent a client specialized in one task (IRC, 
MUD) to still handle other kind of events but just in less featureful 
ways.

BTW. I had some initial thoughts about how the client <-> server 
protocol would look like: http://iki.fi/tss/proto.txt