Pidgin (previously called 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, GroupWise Messenger, and Zephyr networks.Pidgin 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, typing notification, and MSN window closing 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.
News source: Official website
Download: Pidgin 2.5.7
View: Change log
*weeping*
They're looking into a native Win32 UI as part of this year's Google Summer of Code, IIRC.
it's simple... you just install and use with minimal to no configuring.
What would a better alternative be? I've been using pidgin since it was gaim and.. I haven't been able to find something as feature-full yet "light" at the same time...
it's simple... you just install and use with minimal to no configuring.
Have you used it on Windows? They even haven't fixed ICQ search bug which has een there since v2, where the whole window stucks and you can't click on nickame until you delete all che chars from search filed.
miranda
Simple interface, and for what I use it for (chat), it "just works". Nothing majorly annoying, except maybe one issue - double-clicking the tray icon will sometimes bring the window to front, but will also hide the window if it is behind another application's window (instead of just bringing it to the front). The behavior seems inconsistent.
The developers listening to users and including the "Send" button again will always keep this program on my list.
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