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- crazybrit, on 10/12/2007, -4/+125Hey, it looks the same as GAIM.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+105Mirror: http://www.uni.uiuc.edu/~jasonhe/i/pidgin.png
- sbbath, on 10/12/2007, -5/+79@se1zure:
adium is based off of gaim, so if gaim wasn't around, nither would adium - gstuartj, on 10/12/2007, -4/+48Not an option. There's no Linux version of Trillian or Trillian Astra. Pidgen is primarily an IM client for Linux.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -12/+52Open source is better!
- diggapleaze, on 10/12/2007, -5/+44yikes I hope they pick a better icon than two generic speech bubbles
- XVampireX, on 10/12/2007, -0/+34/me likes Tango themes for Gnome :)
- xstephx, on 10/12/2007, -0/+30Mirror : http://img265.imageshack.us/img265/7505/pidginscreenshotfb4.png
- gstuartj, on 10/12/2007, -0/+28The speech bubbles are not the new logo, just a place-holder. If you take a look at the "to-do" list for the project, one of the tasks is getting a new logo/icon.
- spiffyfitz, on 10/12/2007, -1/+26I disagree, arjie. With brighter icon sets like Tango becoming popular, the GAIM icon has been slipping away into the GTK icon graveyard. Especially since all those GTK icons were just reworked. The "speech bubble" is kind of boring, but at least it blends aesthetically with newer icons.
- championchap, on 10/12/2007, -6/+30I actually think it looks quite elegant.
- vann, on 10/12/2007, -0/+23Gaim/Pidgin has had IRC support for a long, long time.
- EnsErmac, on 10/12/2007, -2/+22If only it would start respecting screen real estate… People really don't want a buddy list that takes half the screen up. No idea why GTK apps feel the need to use huge text on everything.
- gstuartj, on 10/12/2007, -3/+19Nope. It's a matter of preference. Personally, I can't stand using Kopete, and every time I try I end up running back to GAIM/Pidgin (which stinks as I'm a KDE user). But, Linux is all about choice.
- gstuartj, on 10/12/2007, -0/+15It actually makes sense if you look up the origin...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pidgin - deadowl, on 10/12/2007, -3/+18I still like Kopete better; any reason I should change my mind?
- Roger, on 10/12/2007, -3/+16People have been making that complaint about Linux for more than 10 years.
- bigtomrodney, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12'non sequitur'
You keep saying that. I do not think it means what you think it means. - forteller, on 10/12/2007, -6/+17Actually, Trillian Astra does work with Linux: http://www.ceruleanstudios.com/ap/index.php?area=interop
I still prefer open source, but Trillian Astra does look very nice. - tokyo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12i'm in love with Gaim, i'm behind 'em all the way with the name change.
- estvir, on 10/12/2007, -3/+13> Hey, it looks the same as GAIM.
By default ? If not, you need to tell me how to get it to look like that, it's quite nice. - GloriousNight, on 10/12/2007, -7/+17What we really need is for GNOME and KDE to join each other in different ways. Using programs designed for the opposite window manager really bothers me - especially when stuff doesn't work right. Might just be wishful thinking, but things that turn people off to open source is the choice you have to make - when you get Windows or a Mac, you get the latest version of Windows or Mac OSX. If you want to run Linux, you need to find a distribution that suits your needs, a window manager that natively supports the programs you want it to, hardware that's linux-compatible...
- snuffulupagus, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11Uhh...this looks just like my gaim beta...what are the changes besides the icon?
- gstuartj, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10It uses a Tango! icon set now, which standardizes the interface with the rest of the Gnome desktop (under Tango!).
- stalefries, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9They can't stick with "Gaim", they had legal issues with AOL and "AIM".
- Malachai, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Actually idonthack is wrong. Gaim does do notifications; use the guifications plugin.
- democracysucks, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8For those of you interested, you can get a pure Tango theme for Gaim here: http://www.gnome-look.org/content/show.php?content=52325
Very sexy, and it fits in great with my Gnome desktop. - Flanker, on 10/12/2007, -4/+12183 new e-mails!
- krasmussen, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9Gaim and Kopete work just fine under any window manager. What one could complain about is the demand of having to run both GTK and Qt and thus waste some resources. Firstly, these two libraries have different advantages and disadvantages, so developers will always make different choices. Secondly, most applications under Windows use different libraries, and none of them (except for the Windows-included ones) are shared between apps, so complaining about this when you're coming from Windows is whining.
- crazybrit, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10forteller: No it doesn't. "IMCore", which I guess is trillian's libgaim/libpurple, compiles under Linux, but I doubt there's a GUI.
- YourDoom123, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8linux is about choice. if you don't want to make choices, then pick a distro that makes the choices for you (ubuntu, suse, etc.). If thats too much choice, then stick to windows or os x.
- rspeed, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6@se1zure
Who cares? It's for a different OS! I use Adium on my Mac and GAIM on my CentOS box at work.
@sbbath
Adium was actually around before libgaim. Adam Iser developed his own code to connect to AOL's TOS service. It wasn't until AdiumX that the developers (it was now an open-source project) used what became libgaim to connect to AOL's OSCAR service. So, technically you're wrong, Adium did and would have continued to exist without libgaim, it simply wouldn't have been as good. - spiffyfitz, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8I'm so glad someone else agrees with me. I switch from Windows/Mac OS X to GNOME regularly, and every time I do the empty whitespace is all I see. Also, buttons are generally enormous with a small bit of text in the middle. Those wasted pixels are taking up my precious and limited monitor real-estate.
- Davidofff, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Its taken a name change but at least now theyve finally made it look more attractive
- Nothlit, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8I think you are thinking of "pigeon" which is quite different from "pidgin."
- davefin, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8I really hope they aren't getting rid of the protocol icons. In that screenshot there doesn't seem to be a way to easily tell which protocol a buddy is using. If you're using AIM, MSN, Yahoo! and Jabber at the same time, this kind of setup is going to get confusing real fast.
- crazybrit, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Yeah, the speech bubbles are generic but they look better overall than the old one. I'm looking forward to see what they come up with for a new icon.
- adamlaz2, on 10/12/2007, -3/+8Imageshack Mirror... (multiple)
http://img405.imageshack.us/img405/8049/pidginscreenshotqb4.png
http://img117.imageshack.us/img117/7525/pidginscreenshotga9.png
http://img117.imageshack.us/img117/3294/pidginscreenshotrr2.png - BHSPitMonkey, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Shouldn't all your GTK+ apps use the same icons as Tango? : )
- RichardTatas, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Oh, wow, your comment looks just like..... 10 others above yours.
- Empyrean, on 10/12/2007, -4/+9Yes Astra is nice looking, but lets take a look at some facts...Trillian 3.1 was released in 2005, (download.com date is 2/24/05), which means 3.0 most likely came out sometime in 2004. Either way, it hasnt been updated since 3.1, in over 2 years. So at that rate we can expect Astra to come about sometime in 2010.
- GMorgan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Or he photoshopped it to make him look popular :) .
- daven1986, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4try kmess if you only use msn, i prefer it over all the others.
- crazybrit, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Shouldn't it use the same icons as all my GTK+ apps?
- Roger, on 10/12/2007, -7/+11http://www.bomahy.nl/hylke/pidgin-screenshot.png
Someone tell the Gnome/KDE people that there is such a thing as going overboard with whitespace. - Grimboy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5@ensermac: I can set it to small in gnome preferences. I'm sure there's something equivalent for other platforms and the buddy list can be resized. I'm pretty sure you can skin the whole thing so it has less whitespace if that's what you mean.
183 emails, wow. I'm thinking either the person hasn't got a spam filter or has lots of people hassling him for support. Either way, rather them than me. - Rickler, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4A lot of people like the plain clean look. Personally I find non-generic GUIs like xfire, supremecommander's GPGnet, itunes, etc. to be annoying.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Even if we're just talking Linux, I'm still biased towards Gaim/Pidgin over Trillian.
- scooper86, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4the gaim logo is ok but the actual in gaim logos especially msn ones are awful and it is about time they update the whole thing to something a bit nicer, keep the gaim logo but just change it a bit.
- sahaskatta, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3they are working pretty fast on Astra.
i have been testing the beta builds for a few weeks now.
they are working fast, adding new features, and fixing bugs constantly
i expect the final edition to be released within a few months. -
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