From kde-core-devel  Sun Aug 04 09:27:07 2002
From: Klas Kalass <klas.kalass () gmx ! de>
Date: Sun, 04 Aug 2002 09:27:07 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: KDE Jabber Library
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Am Samstag, 3. August 2002 17:44 schrieb Tim Jansen:
> On Saturday 03 August 2002 17:00, Neil Stevens wrote:
> > Jabber is actually one of the *least* centralized messaging systems out
> > there.  Jabber is like email, while other systems attempt to lock you in
> > to some proprietary server.  With Jabber, you actually have the
>
> But Jabber requires a server. If you have two laptops with wireless LAN in
> an ad-hoc network (without internet or a server), you can not make a
> connection
After reading the User HowTo I had the impression that you can easily have =
a=20
server on each computer. So what is needed is some kind of discovery servic=
e=20
and a KDE Server frontend.=20
That server could be started on KDE startup and could be used for=20
communication then. So "all" that is needed is some kind of discovery for=20
LANs. But maybe I just did not understand it all.

Klas