[OTR-users] Success !! - Test report - XP SP2 + Gaim 1.1.2 + OTR plugin 1.0.3-.2 and ICQ account

[Aldert J.B.P. Hazenberg]

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Hi,

I promised to Paul to deliver a test report and tonight I had time,
so I started my OTR Quest and the results are in; here we go :

Exec sum : Success !! It worked out of the box in 1 go. Fantastic.

Interested people read on for some positive feedback.

- - I have XP SP2 inc. Norton Internet Security
~  (and for the record run Firefox and Thunderbird, pun intended)

- - Installed Gaim 1.1.2 including GTK+ v2.4.14 rev a  from
~  http://gaim.sourceforge.net/win32/index.php

- - Did not start Gaim but installed OTR for Gaim plugin 1.0.3-2
~  http://www.cypherpunks.ca/otr/binaries/windows/gaim-otr-1.0.3-2.exe
~  after verifying with the signature file.
~ http://www.cypherpunks.ca/otr/binaries/windows/gaim-otr-1.0.3-2.exe.asc

Now all the software was ready to rock.

- - Created an ICQ account at : http://www.icq.com/register/

Jabber.org was down or at least creating accounts there did not work so
I had to do this test with an ICQ account, oh well, did not play with
ICQ for some years, so maybe it was time to revalidates my opinion...

- - Started Gaim, clicked on 'Accounts' at bottom-left, clicked 'Add'
~  Filled in : Screen name (My ICQ number) , Alias (My name)
~              and clicked 'Save'.
~  Clicked 'Close' on the Accounts window. Came back to Login window.
~  Pressed 'Preferences'
~  Selected 'Plugins'
~  Scrolled with the scrollbar on the right to the plugin with the name
~  "Off-the-Record Messaging 1.0.3"
~  Selected (vinked) the 'Load' box next to the plugin name.
~  Clicked on 'Close' at the bottom right of the Preferences window.
~  At the Login window I in the dropdown box my ICQ account and filled in
~  my password and clicked 'Sign on'.

- - Clicked on 'IM' at the bottom-left.
~  Filled in the screen name of one of my OTR enabled friends and VOILA !

I did not "configure" the OTR for Gaim plugin at all but that was not
needed at all ! I started talking to an OTR enabled friend and the
moment he clicked on 'OTR private' in his Conversation window my plugin
quickly generated the private key and session key in a time so short I
forgot to count, maybe 2 or 3 seconds.

The OTR status icon on the bottom right also changed instantly from
'OTR not private' to OTR private. Nice ! Bliss !!

Nearly 100% ready out of the box installation, amazing !!

I have 3 feature 'requests' that I think would be good to have :

= OTR announcing, preferable configurable as Standard ON or OFF.
~  ON = The moment I start chatting with an OTR enabled client
~       the conversation switches to OTR, automatically.

= Group support, my best guess is that this is pretty complicated
~                 but would make it even more 'acceptable'/desired
~                 by a even larger part of the users of IM networks.

= Please start a WIKI or reshuffle stuff around.

~  The web page at http://www.cypherpunks.ca/otr/ is just way to nerdy
~  and unorganized and pretty scary for people who like to go OTR but
~  get kinda lost in things like compilation tips before they hit the
~  easy stuff like configuring the software :)

~  If a WIKI is too much work please make a QuickStart link at the top
~  of the page to a new page that lists the '10 Steps to OTR IM'ing'.


More email follows if Paul has more things to test :)

Aldert Hazenberg.

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