http://www.osnews.com/story/18753/Luke_Schierer_Discusses_Pidgin_Open_Source_Life Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2009, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Tue, 10 Nov 2009 09:46:35 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif http://www.osnews.com http://osnews.com/thread?277663 http://osnews.com/thread?277663 I enjoyed reading this. Gave me insight into open source programming. Thu, 11 Oct 2007 12:47:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (J.R.) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?277706 http://osnews.com/thread?277706 I am still amazed they don't see/understand the desire to have different icons for each protocol. I want to be able to glance at my list and see who is on what network. Maybe I'm invisible but I see a friend I want to IM. Well you can't IM someone on MSN if you're invisible but if you're on Yahoo you can.

Also, file transfers work on one network but not another so I need to know what network they're on to know what my capabilities are.

Lastly, I'd kill for webcam support. Thu, 11 Oct 2007 16:43:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Dubbayoo) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?277729 http://osnews.com/thread?277729 audio/video support will come in 3.0.0 i think, with a telepathy libpurple backend and all the cool stuff Thu, 11 Oct 2007 19:48:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (diego) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?277730 http://osnews.com/thread?277730 3.0.0, when will that happen 5 years from now? I'm not sure we'll ever see video support in Pidgin.
Pidgin (Gaim) has been developed at the speed of a tortoise ever since the main developer joined Google. Thu, 11 Oct 2007 20:10:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (TBone0) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?277736 http://osnews.com/thread?277736 And MSN support is still pretty basic compared to MSN messenger (duh) and amsn. That's why I stick to amsn (everyone I know uses MSN).
Beside your points, pidgin has little support for blocking/unblocking MSN users. Thu, 11 Oct 2007 20:51:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (ParanoidAndroid) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?277740 http://osnews.com/thread?277740 im pretty sure we will see audio/video support in pidgin and in many other apps soon, since most of those apps will start to use the telepathy communication framework and telepathy already has everything in order to do audio/video.Edited 2007-10-11 21:17 Thu, 11 Oct 2007 21:15:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (diego) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?278057 http://osnews.com/thread?278057 Funny... I have protocol icons in my copy of pidgin..

Buddies->Show->Protocol Icons. Not sure what version it was added, but it is certainly in my copy of pidgin. Fri, 12 Oct 2007 23:32:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (spinjax) Comments