This might never happen, but we have just been doing some thinking. We would like to know if anyone would like to see a standalone Gfire application, which will have tons of features, use QT toolkit and work on Linux and Windows.
Gfire Standalone Client
Published: March 6, 2010
sasan March 10, 2010 at 4:35 pm
that would be great!
Robert March 10, 2010 at 7:10 pm
That… Would be nice! I love having xfire within my msn client, but additional features sounds great as well. I’m generally using gtk apps, but I would make an exception for gfire
JC John Sese Cuneta March 19, 2010 at 6:43 pm
If there will ever be a stand-alone Gfire client, it will be better to concentrate on Linux since there is no native Xfire client (and running the Xfire client via WINE is not recommendable either).
Then follow on Mac since Xfire doesn’t provide a Mac-native client either. Windows can be pretty much ignored, if I will take a wild guess, most Pidgin gamers who are Xfire users will more likely use the Xfire client ‘just because’ they’re using Windows anyway. Only the advance users (and those who have no need for the extra features) will still use Pidgin+Gfire.
This way you can concentrate on making the stand-alone client better on Linux, then later Mac. (If you ever decide on it
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Correnos March 22, 2010 at 10:06 pm
That would be amazing. Plugging in with pidgin is nice and all, but a native client, and one that’s more friendly with KDE, would be amazing.
Correnos March 22, 2010 at 10:07 pm
Mistyped, when I said native should have said standalone. You know what I mean.
Ape March 25, 2010 at 8:20 am
The idea of Pidgin is that you can have multiple protocols in the same client and have uniform plugins. Please keep it as it is.
oGGy March 28, 2010 at 9:11 pm
Gfire will stay like it is. This is like an additional project.
Nick April 25, 2010 at 10:46 pm
Gfire will stay like it is. This is like an additional project.