[OTR-dev] pidgin-otr rewrite

[Paul Wouters]

On Thu, 8 Mar 2012, Rob Smits wrote:

>> So I guess the conclusion here is that purple-otr should just exist on its
> own
>> as a fork of pidgin-otr, and will not be merged back in to the pidgin-otr
> code
>> base? It's clear that we can't preserve *everything* that the GTK UI can
> do,
>> and if people can't live without those bells and whistles, then there
> doesn't
>> seem to be any other choice.
>
> At this point I think a fork is the way to go. Usability does suffer a bit
> when you're stuck behind a couple levels of menus. But let me reiterate that
> it is absolutely awesome that purple-otr exists.

I would really prefer one plugin for pidgin, not two. It would be nice
if the gtk stuff can be layered on top of the purple-otr ?

Paul