JBother [UPDATED 0.8.4b]

Adam_Olsen · July 30, 2003, 7:09pm

Just an update on JBother for those interested.

I released 0.8.4b yesterday (Aug 30, 2004).

This release has quite a bit of new features and bug fixes. These include a Service Discovery browser, multiple resource management, nick tab completion in groupchat, and a bunch more.

You can grab the latest release here:

http://linuxhelp.homeunix.com/jbother/files/JBother-0.8.4b.jar

Here’'s an updated screenshot:

http://linuxhelp.homeunix.com/linuxhelp/images/all.png

You can see how far it’'s come since my first post on it

Message me at: synic@linuxhelp.homeunix.com if you have any comments/questions or if you notice a bug.

Thanks,

Adam

Message was edited by: synic

Adam_Olsen · July 30, 2003, 7:13pm

Oh, hey, if you are trying it, shoot me a message. JBother will add me to your roster the first time you sign on.

Thanks,

Adam

matt · July 30, 2003, 7:29pm

Adamn,

Nice! It looks pretty cool. I attached a screenshot for those that are curious. It shows a message window, the buddy list window, and the preferences box.

I’‘m on the Jive Software server which doesn’‘t support s2s right now, so that’‘s probably why you didn’'t get a message that I signed on.

-Matt

Adam_Olsen · July 30, 2003, 7:34pm

Yeah, the preferences window does absolutely nothing right now…

I’‘m still trying to understand the layout managers and figure out how to do make everything look the way I want it to. I’'ll figure it out

Iain_Shigeoka · July 31, 2003, 4:21pm

Very cool! I love the look and feel. I can’‘t wait to see future releases. I’‘ve wanted to switch to a Java client for a while now so I’'m doubly excited about the future of the software. Please keep us up to date on progress!

-iain

Adam_Olsen · August 1, 2003, 2:27am

Actually, I didn’'t get the messaged that you signed in because I am an idiot. I had put in JBother to add me as aolsen@propellerinc.com, which is my email address. My Jabber account ID is actually aolsen@valhalla.dydns.com.

My bad…

Anyway, I uploaded a version that has an updated preferences dialog. It doesn’'t do much more than it did before, but it does do something

Ryan_Graham · August 5, 2003, 2:34pm

Take a look, tell me what you think, and

make fun of my nasty code

Code is only nasty if it doesn’‘t work, JBother doesn’'t seem to have that problem, mostly.

tianyisoftware · August 14, 2003, 8:26am

I can’'t download this.

Can you send me this?

Adam_Olsen · August 14, 2003, 2:02pm

Sure, where do you want me to send it?

BTW, you can find updates on JBother if you are interested by visiting it’'s new freshmeat.net page: http://freshmeat.net/projects/jbother/?topic_id=22

Thanks,

Adam

tianyisoftware · August 15, 2003, 5:00am

E_mail:flashdj@sina.com

thanks

speedy_speedy · September 7, 2003, 7:30pm

Could anyone send the JBother files to this email address: joseluis21@mixmail.com? I can’'t download it from this urls:

http://freshmeat.net/redir/jbother/42942/url_bz2/JBother.tar.bz2

http://freshmeat.net/redir/jbother/42942/url_zip/JBother.zip

Cheers

mkamonster · September 8, 2003, 7:19am

I cannot download them either, I think the server is having some troubles. Or we will have to wait for a new update.

Yours,

Mark Monster

Adam_Olsen · September 10, 2003, 4:07am

Yeah, something is wrong with my server. I’'ll just shoot you an email.

Adam

Adam_Olsen · October 6, 2003, 11:41pm

bump the update

mkamonster · October 7, 2003, 6:33am

Very nice you are using Metouia. It is used by MyOwnMessenger too .

Adam_Olsen · October 7, 2003, 1:19pm

Yeah, IMO it’'s the best one…

However, it’'s only one of two actually good ones (Kunststoff being the other one) that I could find on the net. Is it just me, or is there a serious lack of L&F libs for Swing? Is the idea a recent addition to Swing?

Adam

matt · October 7, 2003, 2:07pm

Yeah, IMO it’'s the best one…

However, it’'s only one of two actually good ones

(Kunststoff being the other one) that I could find on

the net. Is it just me, or is there a serious lack

of L&F libs for Swing? Is the idea a recent addition

to Swing?

Heh. I actually prefer desktop applications to look like they are native applications. Therefore, the new Windows L&F in JDK 1.4.2 is pretty great, I think. The WinLAF project makes it even better. For example, our new Jive Live Assistant (built using Smack, in part) uses WinLAF. You can see screen shots at The Jive Employee Engagement Platform.

Regards,

Matt

Adam_Olsen · October 7, 2003, 4:14pm

I do think the Windows PLAF looks pretty good. Unfortunately, us *nix users don’‘t have a default platform look and feel, and metal just doesn’'t cut it

What I would really like to see is a PLAF that looks like the xfce-basic GTK2 engine - which can be seen in the screenshot here: http://valhalla.dydns.com/xfce-basic.png[/url]

mkamonster · October 7, 2003, 4:25pm

If I’'m right it is possible to use a GTK theme. I thought it was one of the latest additions of J2SDK 1.4.2. Or at least 1.5 will contain it, our oncoming Tiger:).

At least you can try this: http://gtkswing.sourceforge.net/

And now I see JGoodies, I don’'t think it as bad either: http://www.jgoodies.com/

I hope all available Look And Feels are to be found here: http://www.javootoo.com/

Regards,

Mark Monster

Adam_Olsen · August 31, 2004, 11:10pm

JBother 0.8.4b released!