On 3/27/20 2:29 PM, Ted Lemon wrote:
On Mar 27, 2020, at 2:17 PM, Robert Moskowitz <rgm-ietf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:point-and-click only works for special plugins like WebEx. I can't point-and-click to send an email, as I have 4 email clients running at any time. I have to right-click, copy, switch, open , and paste….
Yes, if you shoot yourself in the foot with a double-barreled shotgun, the IETF is not going to be able to protect you.
It was a eyes-wide-open decision: Multiple instances of Thunderbird or multiple mail accounts in one Thunderbird instance. Lots of things do not support the first decision, but it is what I have done for years.
That said...
I have looked around a bit on what xmpp:jaberserver is suppose to do. Best I can figure out is Pidgin has not figured this out. This is out of my area of work. I will try my best to follow along behind others.When I click on a mailto: link, I get a compose window in my MUA, because I’m not doing something weird. I say this not as a criticism, but simply to point out that we can do a lot to improve UX without solving every edge case.
And each Jabber client is different in how it takes info to open a conversation. Pidgin did not work with what was there. So a lot of work will be needed here. Maybe a new protocol?
Slack works orders of magnitude better than jabber for this. If we don’t want slack, then we need better jabber. Slack is a really easy solution to the problem, though—I don’t think better jabber is worth spending time on, honestly.
