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While I'm harping on about Matrix, does anyone know if the GNOME plan to split Fractal into two apps (team chat/ instant messenger) ever went ahead?
https://blogs.gnome.org/tbernard/2018/05/16/banquets-and-barbecues/
GNOME announced in 2022 that they were using Matrix for their official team chat groups;
https://blogs.gnome.org/foundation/2022/06/02/gnome-chat-moves-to-matrix/
So presumably they've put some serious effort into bringing their own Matrix apps to maturity?
I have a feeling that might have been the way they ended up going. Hoping someone from @gnome can fill us in.
I like the idea of separate apps though. I've been operating 2 accounts, using separate apps, one for personal contacts (mainly DMs)_ and one for public interaction (mainly public and team rooms). It's good to have the option to disable one or the other, or both, or neither, depending what I'm doing.
I believe the Fractal contributors' idea to split the designs resulted in Chatty (another third-party app designed for GNOME) handling 1:1 messages over Matrix, but I’m not sure exactly. You can check it out on GitLab: https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/Chatty
Does GNOME have any core apps for instant messaging or team chat?
That's a shame. I cite your blog post about it often. It's a rare case of a software dev blog post that's both technically and socially insightful, worded in a way that can be read and understood by almost anyone.
> using a client with a different feature set is gong to be a problem
I can see why you'd think so, but I haven't found it to be a problem in practice. You are right that it doesn't really work with 1 account.
Curiously, @element seems to have pivoted their free client towards being more of a BBQ app. Presumably they offer more of a banquet version to enterprise users of their hosted service? Given the licensing of the Element apps, they could do that without publishing source code for it.
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