Tessa IM Development Google Group

Re: [tessa-dev] Re: Development Status

brokenth...@gmail.com (Paul-Sebastian Manole) — Thu, 10 Oct 2007 15:08:27 UT

You're doing a very good job Sander. I like your GUI design very much, and
I'm also a Qt fan.
I heard you and MattJ are making a great team now, please keep that up :).
I can't wait to use Tessa IM, nor can I wait till I start developing for it!
keep watching Tessa and its code.

Re: [tessa-dev] Development Status

sander.dijkh...@gmail.com (Sander Dijkhuis) — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 21:14:16 UT

Hi!
Here are some of my ideas for Momple's interface:
- [link]
- [link]
As I see it, Tessa's default wxWidgets interface will:
- be light but extensible;
- integrate well with the desktop (using the common GTK+/Win32/Cocoa look);
- use common GUI features like a main menu.

Development Status

mwi...@gmail.com (Matthew Wild) — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 17:14:08 UT

Hi all,
The Tessa project kind of fell silent recently (ok, not so recently).
Mostly to blame was my time being diverted to first Google Summer of
Code, and then other work since.
The project is FAR from dead however!
Some of you may/may not already know that we have a new developer,
Sander (sq89). Sander was originally developing a client of his own

Re: Logos by Thorns[Paul]

brokenth...@gmail.com (Paul) — Sat, 08 Aug 2007 01:17:06 UT

[link]
Here we are. I was thinking of doing it with Blender (blender.org) and
it would be 3D of course, would also scale good.
Let me know what you think.

Re: [tessa-dev] Re: Logos by Thorns[Paul]

mwi...@gmail.com (Matthew Wild) — Fri, 08 Aug 2007 02:03:06 UT

FWIW... [link]
Credits for the concept go to someone who is to embarrassed to be named :)
Matthew.

Re: Logos by Thorns[Paul]

brokenth...@gmail.com (Paul) — Thu, 08 Aug 2007 22:01:20 UT

Thanks Felix. You are right. The spirals make it complicated. I think
I will remove one of them. Applying clipping would be a little bit
easier.
Should I remove them all? I don't think I should modify the logo too
much. The design on paper looks perfect. The problem is putting it on
vectors. :)

Re: [tessa-dev] Re: Logos by Thorns[Paul]

f...@ubercode.de (Felix H. Dahlke) — Thu, 08 Aug 2007 21:42:30 UT

I pretty much like it, though I think the spirals make it sort of complicated.
Paul:

Re: Logos by Thorns[Paul]

brokenth...@gmail.com (Paul) — Thu, 08 Aug 2007 19:28:48 UT

[link]
It's an archive of the SVG, PNG, and other smaller PNGs of the
approximate sizes of standard icons.

Re: Logos by Thorns[Paul]

brokenth...@gmail.com (Paul) — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 17:13:45 UT

tessa - doodles01.jpg uploaded.
Please tell me what you think.

Re: Logos by Thorns[Paul]

brokenth...@gmail.com (Paul) — Wed, 07 July 2007 21:13:08 UT

v-tessa-3.svg is still a WIP preview.
I uploaded the svg so that maybe someone could take the work further
and upload it back here.
The final logo should be released under (CC) I believe.

Logos by Thorns[Paul]

brokenth...@gmail.com (Paul) — Sun, 07 July 2007 16:21:33 UT

During the past 2 weeks I had a lot of "visions" of the Tessa logo.
There is *one* that I liked especially, and I've uploaded an image.
Beware, it's a WIP.
It's in the Files section, v-tessa-2.png.
The top is meant to look like a crown (upside-down) but I still
haven't gotten good at colouring in SVGs.

Re: Tessa To-do & c.

brokenth...@gmail.com (Paul) — Sat, 07 July 2007 20:32:15 UT

On Jul 21, 11:21 pm, Paul-Sebastian Manole <brokenth...@gmail.com>
wrote:
Sorry for my typo, I meant "we shouldn't". :)

Re: Tessa To-do & c.

brokenth...@gmail.com (Paul-Sebastian Manole) — Sat, 07 July 2007 20:21:14 UT

Yes, I hope I won't miss that day.
Yes we should discuss this too. IIRC, you can include close source licensed
parts (under copyright or other licenses, as long as that license doesn't
require you to change your program's license to that license if you use that
closed source part). But I'm hoping we don't allow closed source plugins. If

Re: [tessa-dev] Re: Tessa To-do & c.

waqa...@gmail.com (Waqas) — Sat, 07 July 2007 12:58:02 UT

I have not read v3. Should probably do so. And I agree with Paul: we
should discuss it in detail.
I think closed source plugins should be allowed. I would like to know
if the GPL would by default restrict to using only GPL plugins, or
plugins under other open source licenses as well. Restricting to only

Re: Tessa To-do & c.

brokenth...@gmail.com (Paul) — Fri, 07 July 2007 17:04:31 UT

* Restricting Tivoization - I totally agree with this new feature of
GPLv3! I believe in _total_ freedom to modify the OpenSource software
that I use or have been distributed. It makes me **mad** to think that
someone can restrict the things I can do with the OpenSource software
I use. Of course, as long as I don't distribute my modified version,