451565 - add a Qt Instant Messenger to Qt Firefox

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Core Graveyard :: Widget: Qt, enhancement)

Description

[Mike]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1)
Build Identifier: Release 1

Hello

Mozilla-qt now offers the option, to add a Qt Instant Messenger to it by default.

We currently create based on libretroshare, a serverless instant messenger, so maintenance and authority free, a XUL XPI gui for normal Firefox.
http://retromessenger.sf.net
see screenshots on the homepage and XPI installer in the SVN.

Ideally the library has already a Qt gui
http://retroshare.sf.net

please test it and add the design of the messenger only mod retromessenger with the qt gui of retroshare to qt-firefox.

For that in retromessenger you are welcome to develop the qt gui or add it to qt fireforx without joining the retromessenger team to build a standalone.

An integration of Friends and Instant Messaging into Qt Mozilla based on qt gui of retroshare (but in the messenger only design of retromessenger) would be a good basis for Qt.Mozilla to get accepted by friends.

A hookup of the qt gui of retromessenger as well allows to be a mobile phone instant messenger, as the retromessenger project has the idea to build the messenger on it (but with wxwidget gui, which is needed as well for another project).

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Build a retromessenger.sf.net qt gui (4 Windows only !!!)
2. integrate into Qt-firefox
3. make a qt retromessenger standalone with us as project
4. let people have this messenger in your browser or as pop up window on mobile phones.
Actual Results:  
more friendship community to qt browser

Expected Results:  
more users

http://retromessener.sf.net
has a qt gui already here:
http://retroshare.sf.net
(which needs only to be reszised to retromessenger design layout for mobile phone)

Comment 1

[Vladimir Vukicevic [:vlad] [:vladv] (needinfo me, slow to respond)]

This sounds like a great idea for an extension, but not for the Firefox core -- you'll note that there are no IM features in firefox right now (though there are a handful of extensions that do similar things).

(Also, this isn't a Widget: Qt bug -- this would be more a Firefox product bug.)