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Luke Schierer Discusses Pidgin, Open Source, Life

Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 10th Oct 2007 22:23 UTC, submitted by irbis

"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."

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Protocol Icons

by Dubbayoo on Thu 11th Oct 2007 16:43 UTC

Member since:
2006-02-09

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.

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RE: Protocol Icons

by diego on Thu 11th Oct 2007 19:48 in reply to "Protocol Icons"

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2006-08-15

audio/video support will come in 3.0.0 i think, with a telepathy libpurple backend and all the cool stuff

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RE[2]: Protocol Icons

by TBone0 on Thu 11th Oct 2007 20:10 in reply to "RE: Protocol Icons"

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2006-12-26

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.

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RE: Protocol Icons

by ParanoidAndroid on Thu 11th Oct 2007 20:51 in reply to "Protocol Icons"

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2006-03-26

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.

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RE: Protocol Icons

by spinjax on Fri 12th Oct 2007 23:32 in reply to "Protocol Icons"

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2006-12-12

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.

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