On Thu, 19 Nov 2020 at 14:44, Tom Hughes via devel <devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > 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 don't know if it's packaged and can't speak to its quality, but there exists a protocol plugin to use Matrix in Pidgin: https://github.com/matrix-org/purple-matrix/#readme > 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 > -- Elliott _______________________________________________ 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
