tackfurlo
09-25-2008, 12:44 PM
First let me say that I love GBridge. I have VNC setup between 4 of my systems and will seriously consider moving my 5th from Ubuntu to Windows soon solely because of GBridge.
This said, as a chat client, Gbridge lacks a single feature that many of the top clients on the market (including Google Talk) also lack, and it drives me nuts. That feature is the ability to pick which jabber "resource" (i.e. which computer where an account is signed on) to send messages to. For most clients, this is no big deal, since only a single system is signed into Google Talk at once (at least they're designed that way) however for GBridge, this will almost never be the case, since users will sign multiple systems of theirs on to GBridge at a time. Since these systems are often located off site, if someone sends them a message and it goes through to their off-site system, they miss the message. I find this to be a really big problem.
GBridge should add one of three possible workarounds to this problem:
1) An order-of-succession, so that each computer where GBridge is signed on will recieve messages only if the ones in the order above it are offline.
2) Jabber protocol "priority" support, which is basically the same thing as 1, but more official.
3) A simple enable/disable messages toggle, allowing you to simply manually disable individual systems from getting messages while leaving the rest online.
At this point, I'm using Digsby for my IMs, and I simply set the Digsby priority sky high (like 99 I think) so that all messages go to me via Digsby instead of Gbridge, but I would prefer to be able to do all of this via GBridge, as soon as Gbridge adds working "priority" support.
This said, as a chat client, Gbridge lacks a single feature that many of the top clients on the market (including Google Talk) also lack, and it drives me nuts. That feature is the ability to pick which jabber "resource" (i.e. which computer where an account is signed on) to send messages to. For most clients, this is no big deal, since only a single system is signed into Google Talk at once (at least they're designed that way) however for GBridge, this will almost never be the case, since users will sign multiple systems of theirs on to GBridge at a time. Since these systems are often located off site, if someone sends them a message and it goes through to their off-site system, they miss the message. I find this to be a really big problem.
GBridge should add one of three possible workarounds to this problem:
1) An order-of-succession, so that each computer where GBridge is signed on will recieve messages only if the ones in the order above it are offline.
2) Jabber protocol "priority" support, which is basically the same thing as 1, but more official.
3) A simple enable/disable messages toggle, allowing you to simply manually disable individual systems from getting messages while leaving the rest online.
At this point, I'm using Digsby for my IMs, and I simply set the Digsby priority sky high (like 99 I think) so that all messages go to me via Digsby instead of Gbridge, but I would prefer to be able to do all of this via GBridge, as soon as Gbridge adds working "priority" support.