Dino: An open-source application for XMPP messaging

Re:Dino: An open-source application for XMPP messaging by daryltucker on Wednesday January 29, 2020 @05:53PM (#22186892)

Dino is slim and has some decent features, but Gajim is the client you want to be using today. Gajim has (although mostly broken) Voice and Video support as well as (working) plugin support and various plugins that you may expect.

Dino really fell short for me in my needs for XMPP client, though I'm happy to see federated systems and their clients being promoted.

Specifically Dino has issues with OMEMO support with Conversations, while Gajim does not see these issues. This means I can use Gajim on my computer and Conversations on my phone without issues.

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Re:Dino: An open-source application for XMPP messaging by larma on Wednesday January 29, 2020 @06:07PM (#22187026)

We fixed some issues with OMEMO in the last months, so if your experience is a little bit older, those might be fixed already. If not, please report.

Dino has a very limited plugin system, extending it is planned for future releases. We are also interested in adding support for A/V calling and we already have some pieces of code for it, though nothing in a quality for actual usage.

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Re:Dino: An open-source application for XMPP messaging by summersprite7 on Wednesday January 29, 2020 @06:55PM (#22187401)

> you want to be using

Not everyone has to use the same thing.

As you said: Gajim does lots and lots of things, some of it only half-works. Gajim might be good for some people, but confusing for others. I probably wouldn't recommend it to my mom.

Dino has a good feature set and the user interface feels nice. It doesn't do everything, but that can also be a positive thing. Dino's OMEMO works fine for me.

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Re:Dino: An open-source application for XMPP messaging by julian-klode on Thursday January 30, 2020 @07:25AM (#22190847)

Gajim's an unstable mess that half of the time is not even connected to the server because it did not manage to reconnect after resume, or it just crashes.

It is fairly useless on dark theme, rendering grey on grey for the backlog.

Apart from a missing status notifier / appindicator, gajim is miles ahead.

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Re:Dino: An open-source application for XMPP messaging by ppjet6 on Wednesday January 29, 2020 @05:55PM (#22186915)

Maybe the OMEMO issues you're talking about are worth reporting?

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Re:Dino: An open-source application for XMPP messaging by fisle on Thursday January 30, 2020 @03:58AM (#22189948)

What issues did you have? I used Dino and Conversations for six months or so a year ago, and enjoyed the experience. Our conversations were all OMEMO encrypted.

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