Pidgin (formerly Gaim) is a multi-protocol instant messaging (IM) client for Linux, BSD, MacOS X, and Windows. It is compatible with AIM and ICQ (Oscar protocol), MSN Messenger, Yahoo!, IRC, Jabber, Gadu-Gadu, SILC, Novell GroupWise Messenger, Lotus Sametime, and Zephyr networks. Gaim users can log in to multiple accounts on multiple IM networks simultaneously. This means that you can be chatting with friends on AOL Instant Messenger, talking to a friend on Yahoo Messenger, and sitting in an IRC channel all at the same time. Pidgin supports many features of the various networks, such as file transfer, away messages, and typing notification. It also goes beyond that and provides many unique features. A few popular features are Buddy Pounces, which give the ability to notify you, send a message, play a sound, or run a program when a specific buddy goes away, signs online, or returns from idle; and plugins, consisting of text replacement, a buddy ticker, extended message notification, iconify on away, spell checking, tabbed conversations, and more. Pidgin runs on a number of platforms, including Windows, Linux, and Qtopia (Sharp Zaurus and iPaq).
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And I personally don't like GAIM/Pidgin at all. I tried it a while ago but I didn't get how to set it up properly, so I started using Miranda IM instead; though I must admit that I didn't give version 2 a try yet.
try it, I changed to gaim from miranda
Finch (a library) is represented by - strangely enough - a Finch.
Pidgin sounds like Pigeon, and by choosing the icon they have, all of the purple-based apps have bird logos.
Or something like that. I read a quote about this earlier.
so they changed it to pidgin, which is similar to pidgeon (to avoid more possible copyright problems) and cause pidgeons are messenger birds.
And the new 2.0 works alot better then the old ones, i like it alot, i think i will use this one from now on
This is completely wrong. The reason the name Pidgin was chosen is because Pidgins are simplified languages used by two peoples that do not share a common language - it's often a mix of both languages, with a third sometimes thrown in. This ties into the fact that the program is a multi-protocol (multi-language) messenger program.
Edit: Wow, the new MS-Windows theme changes dynamically along with an msstyle change.. Now that alone is worth the upgrade. =)
Last edited by ataris_kid on 04 May 2007 - 23:06
Which is as it should be. With all software.
Agreed. It takes the hassle out of trying to find a matching skin.
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