For nomad use: a "quick connect" feature
When using Gajim from a computer which is not my usual computer, I often miss a "quick connect" feature (a bit like in MSN messenger): a pair of text inputs (JID, password) and a "connect" button. The account creation system is ok when one wants to set up a permanent account, but it's definitely not ergonomic for nomad use:
- internet cafés
- friend's laptop
- etc.
I think more and more people have a nomad behavior in their usage of the internet. The A:\setup.exe era is over, people use web-based or ready-for-use applications, and they change computer often. Open source communication apps need to take this into account, and such a feature would definitely help.
The "quick connect" zone should appear permanently, for example above the roster, or near the status menu. (Of course it could be deactivated in the conf if you don't want it.) Also, this way of connecting would not save anything anywhere on the disk, it should be as transient as possible.
Of course, one can think about setting default parameters for transient accounts, like a default resource (btw, i definitely don't think the resource should be prompted to the user in this mode).
Such a behavior from Gajim would probably lead to more installed Gajim's in internet cafés (among other places)...
(I set severity to "minor", because this lack doesn't prevent the program from working, but I didn't set it to "trivial", because, err... actually it does prevent the program from being really usable. ;) )