[kirby]

Is it possible to add support for the original jabber protocol? I mean, gtalk is based on that one.

[alaska]

Originally Posted by kirby

Is it possible to add support for the original jabber protocol? I mean, gtalk is based on that one.

yes please! actually this is the the only reason keeping me from using fring. as we all know, jabber is the only free IM system and connects to ANY other network (except skype).
why do you support google talk and not generic jabber? you could just turn it into an jabber/googletalk service, with the googletalk server as default entry. this is the way others do it (palringo, which i use now).
I think many techies use jabber and would like to use it through fring!
thanks

[akamenov]

Why not to implement jabber connection? It would be very useful...
At the moment, nim*uzz have already implemented it, so I had to switch to it, despite it being java, not sis.

[t0mcioo]

Originally Posted by kirby

Is it possible to add support for the original jabber protocol? I mean, gtalk is based on that one.

True - You can use any jabber client to use it with jabber (except voice chats IIRC) so adding options for manually configure connection (server, port, ssl, etc) probably will be the easiest way to make quick fix on this.

[dkallan]

I second the comments of the others. Having support for jabber connections with private jabber servers (corporate or personal) would be huge!

With this requirement comes the need for SSL support, including self-signed certificates and certificates signed by an "unofficial" CA. In my case, my work has a Jabber server for corporate IM, and I have an iChat AV Server on Mac OS X 10.5 Server.

[cmlewan]

Jabber is the only main chat protocol that isn't supported by Fring. (And FaceBook chat of course). So I hope you add Jabber!

[epifone]

Another xmpp hopeful here. I'll be back when fring supports it.

[neelance]

Yes, please add Jabber/XMPP support. This is a really missing feature in fring.

[formidible]

Surely if you use Jabber you wouldn't use fring, and vice versa? I know which one I prefer.

[felixtherat]

Originally Posted by formidible

Surely if you use Jabber you wouldn't use fring, and vice versa? I know which one I prefer.

Well if all my friends used the same protocol then yes, but unfortunately they don't. This is the purpose programs like fring serve, and besides fring is not a protocol, but a gateway to services (ok Jabber isn't either but we really mean XMPP).

And yes I'd use Fring a lot more if it was ready for XMPP, definitely an important feature to include. I was amazed to see that it was missing, whilst the hacky facebook 'protocol' [ i.e. a rough-and-ready hack - you know what I'm talkin about developers ] is included. Facebook themselves reported that they're moving over to XMPP [any decade now ]