<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 11:43 AM, Axel <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:axel.grude@googlemail.com" target="_blank">axel.grude@googlemail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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Also, if the numbers in that PDF are to be believed...Skype is the
most popular and they're not much fun to integrate with. :)<br>
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But probably also most rewarding as they support voice as their main
medium; I think this would be a good project for an Add-on, not for
core. Why not ask the Skype developers to write one?</div></blockquote><div>I doubt Skype (aka Microsoft) would have much interest in integrating. But they do have an API actually (DBUS on Linux and via window messages or something on Windows). It would be possible to use that to integrate with a running Skype instance. <br>
<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"><blockquote type="cite">About IM in email clients in general...I agree with Vincent that I
find it extremely beneficial for work. It's less intrusive than
calling, but more immediate than email. Having the presence
information is nice if you want to walk down to someone's office,
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Contact list of <i><b>what</b></i>? Is Thunderbird supporting
presence already? Or are you talking about the other IM clients?</div></blockquote><div>Thunderbird 15 will include chat. Presence will be shown in email headers (I think, it's Thunderbird 16 + approval for aurora <a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=763522">https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=763522</a>). I was actually referring to using Outlook + Lync here though, but really my point was just that it's useful when you receive an email to know what that person is currently doing (can you call, IM, stop by or email them back).<br>
<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000">And you could potentially later on <i>"bolt on"</i> screen sharing,
which is a hugely expanding market. Has anybody of you guys tried <a href="http://www.teamviewer.com/en/index.aspx" target="_blank">teamViewer</a>?
It's the fastest that I have tried so far...<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br></font></span></div></blockquote><div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000">This is kind of off topic I guess, but Lync includes support for screen sharing now. It seems to work OK. There are many features that can be supported via IM though (potentially voice, video, white boarding, screen sharing...just to name a few). Luckily both the IRC and XMPP implementations in Instantbird/Thunderbird are fairly extensible. And we'll definitely encourage that for any other protocols added to chat/ (anyone want to make a SIP/SIMPLE implementation?) :)<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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</blockquote></div>--Patrick<br>