Consolidation
In other news, I am beyond annoyed by the recent Google Talk / AIM integration. My contacts list is already a suffocating morass into which I dare not venture, and now it’s populated with a gazillion AIM/AOL contacts too.
And now people who only knew me through AIM will not be able to see me anymore, without going through and adding my Gmail address. Granted there aren’t a lot of those left, but it’s a little sad to have to give that up.
I’ve been using Gmail’s janky chat client exclusively for years now and it’s only just been barely adequate. With this last change, I’m pretty much at the breaking point. It’s pretty stupid that I can consolidate people into a single contact in the Contacts book (or whatever you want to call it), but then these people don’t show up as a single contact in the chat list. So I have multiple entries for quite a few people… many with two, as many as three or four for others.
I want to get a “real” AIM/Jabber/whatever all-in-one client, but I am super reluctant to give up my convenient Gmail logging-of-everything and I’m not really sure if I can keep that without using one of Google’s clients.
A pointed example of uber convenience trumping quality. Arrggghhh.
