Friday, May 25, 2007

So what is up with that IM application?


Well, a lot, and then not so much :-) I have used the last weeks refactoring the code, implementing new minor features, fixing bugs and still there hasn't been a release.

Some of the new features include support for emoticons (as well as copy and paste of emoticons), logging, translation support, as well as the beginning of voice calls. The last week I have been working on implementing support for other protocols (and connection managers) and today Luiz started moving this work into Tapioca.



Unfortunately, we need to find a new name for the application (the real reason that there has been no release!) as Colligo is trademarked. For the moment we settled on Ereséva which is Tupi Guarani (the "original" Brazilian language) for "What you want to say", but if someone has a better name, now is the time to tell us!

For the next month I will be travelling and as such, I won't have time to hack on Ereséva.

27 comments:

n8 said...

How about "Chatter" -- doesn't seem to be trademarked in the US anyway.

Scott Robinson said...

It would be neat to have a buddy list ordered by the last time I chatted with someone.

radmen said...

nathan: Chatter for my just sux ;-]

Unknown said...

Ursprache?

Urchat?

Anonymous said...

How about Angel?

The English word came from Latin angelus, which came from Greek ἄγγελος, ángelos, meaning "messenger".

Unknown said...

just keep Ereséva ! it's cool, original, unknow... great !

Unknown said...

Fair play, this stuff is great. Thanks for putting in the time and effort. Generally, I'm a Gossip user, but I must admit your UI looks a rather bit more polished (not least because of the tango icons that I assume are being used.) Telepathy is rocking.

As for naming, the current one is a bit of a mouthful, and I had a bit of difficulty over pronounciation, but it's 10000 times better than calling it something like "The GIMP". ;)

etrunko said...

I kind of liked the "Angel" stuff. To be honest, Angelus would be my choice. Reference:

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/angel

Best Regards, Etrunko

Unknown said...

Envoy IM

alsuren said...

Ereséva is a good name. I wouldn't worry about people not being able to pronounce it. Some people would even go as far as saying that it's a good thing. The reason kopete's nme stuck was 'because we love hearing english speakers mis-pronounce it' or words to that effect :D

Regarding support for other connection managers: isn't the whole point of telepathy that it should be almost network-transparent? (ie that the UI designers souldn't have to make much effort at all to get support for all protocols). I would really like to get involved with the telepathy project in some way (probably the msn connection manager) so if you find any silly behaviour in butterfly when you're adding support for it, tell me, and maybe it will spur me into action

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Anonymous said...

If you want something from a foreign language that's short, you could use "Kata" (Indonesian for talk; the verb is Berkata).

Or talkie... "What do you IM with? I use Talkie." :D

I don't mind Ereséva, though. I feel I could truly impress people with my beautiful mangling of its pronunciation.

BTW, what you've done so far looks great. Would there be a possibility of a Windows port in the future?

Kim Lindgren said...

So..- Where can I get this seemingly wonderful software? =D

Unknown said...

I think Angel would be a great name for this project, mainly because it would be the first open source IM client that is easy to pronounce AND sounds good.

Gaim... was it said like G-Aim or Game?

Pidgin.. every time I see it, I read it as pid-gin ( or pig-din )

Kopete.. wtf?

Amsn.. a little unoriginal

When normal people ask me what I use, I want to say Angel.

juan escobar said...

Hey, what about "Conversa"?

it's spanish.
It means talk, and it sounds also like conversion...
:)

Trevice said...

jeje maybe because I'm spanish but....

"conversa" is great !!!

emmmmm a small dude, where can I download the soruce code?

Topendharness said...

From an Aussie, the name "Bullroarer" might be appropriate as this is what the indigenous aboriginies used to communicate with each other.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullroarer_%28music%29

Check out Crocodile Dundee the movie.

Willi said...

@Topendharness: I like the idea behind it, but the word "Bullroarer" doesn't have a nice ring to it.

What about "Tin cans and a string"?
It'd certainly make conversation interesting:
- So, what do you use for talking to other people online?
- Tin cans and a string!

:-)

alsuren said...

@willem: You just gave me the perfect name for a commandline telepathy client: CupsAndString

And if I'm writing it, it'll probably be just as much of a dirty hack :D

alsuren said...

I was just hacking about with ereseva, and noticed a hard-coded path in the emoticons code, so I re-wrote it to use xdg.BaseDirectory.load_data_paths(), and be generally more robust.

I also did some general re-factoring in emoticons.py to make it look a bit more pythonic.

Patch is located at:
http://www.srcf.ucam.org/~dl325/voip/ereseva_emoticons.patch

Is there a better place for me to submit patches? I expect I will be doing quite a bit of hacking over the holidays.

Jeduan said...

Conversa sounds great to me too. Spanish talking too, hehe.

Unknown said...

Iris? Greek messenger goddess?
And as a bonus, allows for a simple minimalistic multicolored design to build upon (icons, logo, etc.)

asdasdasdas said...

Is this svn current?
I really want to give it a try.

BTW. just drop the name thingie, ereséva is a great name, it is quite original, and since you are brasilero it makes the name quite cool :).

I can't believe this name thingie is blocking such a cool project.

Cheers

john galindo said...

hi, l like the idea in spanish,
where can i get the binaries for ereseva?

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