6 Aug 2002 julian   » (Master)

And in the end it all works out anyway!

I'm working on some (in my opinion) very cool stuff for Gabber2. I don't want to disclose exactly what it is just yet, but I'm getting to work with a technology which I'm pretty excited about. The technology itself isn't particularly complicated or difficult. It's simple, elegant, and the end result for the user is that they barely even know they're using it. That's exactly what I love about it.

I managed to get Gtk::TreeView and TreeModel to partially submit to my will, but it still seems that they were designed for displaying a mass amount of data, not necessarily for what I'm doing with them. I'll continue to hack away until I get something decent and clean. Dave Smith's original RosterView for Gabber based on GtkCTree kicked ass, so I have a lot to live up to.

temas and ns have sort of started working on their message routing framework for Gabber2. What they describe sounds somewhat overly-complicated to me, but they promise that the end result will be pretty powerful and work well (and they'll be able to get it done in a decent amount of time). I trust they know what they're doing.

Overall, I think Gabber2 may take a bit of time to get started, but once we have this new framework in place, it will take off much faster than Gabber ever did. Once it's usable, I want to push the limits of Jabber -- pubs and discos, baby.

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