[sspiff]

While this is a nice effort, why use Google Talk at all for chatting if you're going to do all this effort (per user configuration etc) if you could just use an XMPP client with OTR[1] support, or use an XMPP server you can trust?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Off-the-Record_Messaging

[patrickaljord]

Because then you'd be talking to yourself as nobody uses XMPP with OTR.

[drdaeman]

At least Adium, Gajim, Kopete and qutIM have built-in OTR support.

So, I guess, it's a bit more than nobody.

[patrickaljord]

Yeah I remember using OTR on kopete when I was in college. I had one instance opened on my laptop and the other on my PC. It was pretty cool and easy to set up. What wasn't easy was finding anyone I knew to talk to with beside the few other linux nerds at school.

[dgesang]

Because people don't know about it.

[sspiff]

Nobody is using this solution either, and setting it up is harder than setting up OTR (provided your conversation partner is already using an app for XMPP).

I can explain my girlfriend and brother how to enable and configure OTR. I would have a hard time getting them to execute the instructions for this addon.

[simgidacav]

So true :( so sad. I've got a bunch of friends that know how to use it. They're just annoyed if I enable it. :(

[stock_toaster]

I use it. So ... nobody+1 I guess?