On 19/11/2020 19:25, Adam Williamson wrote:
I mean, I'm an old fogey too, but at *some* point we do have to accept that new things can be actively better.
True.
I honestly can see exactly zero downsides to using a Matrix setup as compared to using IRC, and a giant pile of upsides, starting with "I no longer need to dedicate a small portion of my brain to remembering how my IRC bouncer setup works and maintaining it".
Well my experience when I looked at matrix desktop clients before was that they needed more screen real estate to be usable than IRC clients, which is certainly one downside and probably a direct consequence of rich media support. There's also the fact that unless I can get it to talk to all the same chat systems I have pidgin talking to I would need to be running two clients instead of one. I am interested though, and did actually explore the idea of running my own home server and what I could bridge it to (so not that different to running my own bouncer now...) recently. Anyway I just looked at the three clients that were suggested earlier - all three are using Qt which makes them virtually unusable on a wayland/gnome desktop as far as I can see as the resize handles are so small they're impossible to use. More amusingly one of them crashed as soon as I logged in and a second went into a "your window is too small mode" as soon as I resized it to match my IRC client. The third was better, but rendered the conversation in that left/right style of SMS clients, which is horrible for a chat room. No doubt there are others I can try... Tom -- Tom Hughes (tom@xxxxxxxxxx) http://compton.nu/ _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
