Hello,

I know this is a free application and I do not want to be ungrateful, but you are just kidding with this, right? Why instead of making this ... this monster ... can`t you take some part from Adium IM or cooperate with them to create the best XMPP/Jabber client for Mac. This thing is really horrible and absolutely out of design recommendations from Apple.

Hello,

Thanks for the feedback. It’s true that OneTeam isn’t currently designed in the Mac style. On the other hand, the experience is the same on different systems, because it looks exactly the same everywhere (and especially good in the Linux environment). However, we are looking into making it more native for each platform, which would also mean making the Mac version… well, more like a Mac :)

Hello Mark,

first thank you for quick reply. Now to the “...experience is the same on different systems…”. I do not think this is a good idea to have same looking app on every system, because every system has its own design, usage, ... “specification”. So the app is than out of this everything and it could be more worse than good. For example I just know around 10 people which would use this app if it would be more native; and they have no problem to use it on different platforms.

But, I am glad to hear you will try to make it more Mac like :-) Wast you also thinking about putting OneTeam to the AppStore for Mac? I have also no problem if it would be available for money if it would have XMPP/Jabber support as it has now. Because, except the design ;-), is this the best for Mac.

Hi mgi,

Do you have specific advices to give us to make OneTeam Desktop look more Mac-style? What are the most important things to take car of?

On the Mac AppStore, yes that’s definitely a good idea, but there is still a problem: how do you migrate easily and cleanly from an app obtainted via oneteam.im to an app obtained from the Mac AppStore?

Hi Nicolas,

for the design try to look at Apple Human Interface Guidelines.

And to the App Store, it should be simple for you when you have OT in iOS App Store. And I think the migration wouldn`t be hard when the OT for Mac is free app. So the migration would be to delete OneTeam.app and install/buy it thru App Store. Of course if you decide to have OT for Mac a payed app than you can put it also into you e-shop, but for example with price about 1 or 2 dollars higher.

Mac already has a pretty good XMPP client (Psi/Psi+). I do not consider iChat or Adium true XMPP clients, but rather legacy clients with XMPP supports hacked in (in case of iChat) or added on top of (Adium). The problem with Psi (which I have been using for the past years, recently switching to Psi+) is that it has a horrible UI as far as matching the Mac ecosystem habits goes. That’s why I couldn’t persuade any of my co-workers to switch to Psi (each time they curse at iChat/Adium for not supporting a particular XMPP feature).

I too believe that consolidating the interface across platforms should be secondary to consolidating it with each particular OS standards. Even in large and OS/platform-mixed teams, it’s usually more common that each single member works on a single platform (mostly), rather than on many other platforms. I do understand the convenience of leveraging the universal Mozilla framework, but that’s a developer’s convenience that shouldn’t impact the real user. And there is zero benefit of the platform in for the user.

As of this day, there is no single XMPP client for Mac that would be fully compliant with XMPP and provide a native GUI. Even Swift (which I had hopes for) falls pretty short. That’s where you could have a big success IMO (even with a paid product).

Filip, What is your point ?
Are you suggesting to restart from scratch a client with a three different team and code base ? A windows team, a Mac team and a Linux team ?
I think OneTeam is currently pretty solid, does a lot of things no other tool does, can even do voice call and I feel it is more a matter of small adjustment to adapt to each platform users taste.

No constructive point whatsoever. Just realized I was commenting on a two month topic, so… you could call it trolling I guess… :)

I feel some regret that there is now another feature-strong client that doesn’t though fill in the old well known niche on the Mac software market. Obviously not something you could have attained with the strong multi-platform objective. I wish you good luck… just not a product I could use personally.