Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Fri 30th May 2003 02:18 UTC
Thursday here, a slow evening. Time for a new poll. This poll might require you to think a bit extra: it asks you to vote not for your favorite application, but which OSS application, in your opinion, has achieved high standards, performance, features and ease of use when compared to the best of breed of the closed source world. Read more for more explanation and voting.
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I was just wondering why some folks prefer Gaim.
I personally don't like how the statuses are managed. There is no visible indicator (that I saw) that shows your current status. To be away, you have to have another window open that shows your away message.
When you "Alias" a buddy, the first text field it takes you to is to edit the username (the actualy username on the server, not their local nickname).
The account manager feels kind of glued on. When you first run the program, it takes you to a signon screen that only lets you sign on to AIM accounts, you have to go to a seperate account manager to login to your MSN/Yahoo/whatever accounts.
The default sounds are also horrible! Does anyone use them?
All that said, it has made some improvements recently. The new layout is dramatically better (no more split tab for viewing and editing buddies), and the tray icon now works properly in KDE and Gnome.