Submitted by “Luke Schierer started using Pidgin (then known as Gaim) in 1999, not long after its first release. He officially joined the project in 2001, after being on the IRC channel and helping out for a few several months. He is now one of the core developers. Somewhere between his full time job working with Linux clusters and his time spent developing Pidgin, he finds time to tell PC World about his life, open source and Pidgin.”
I enjoyed reading this. Gave me insight into open source programming.
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.
audio/video support will come in 3.0.0 i think, with a telepathy libpurple backend and all the cool stuff
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.
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
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.
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.