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Pidgin 2.4.3
Pidgin is an instant messaging program for Windows, Linux, BSD, and other Unixes. You can talk to your friends using AIM, ICQ, Jabber/XMPP, MSN Messenger, Yahoo!, Bonjour, Gadu-Gadu, IRC, Novell GroupWise Messenger, QQ, Lotus Sametime, SILC, SIMPLE, MySpaceIM, and Zephyr.
Pidgin can log in to multiple accounts on multiple IM networks simultaneously. This means that you can be chatting with friends on AIM, talking to a friend on Yahoo Messenger, and sitting in an IRC channel all at the same time.
Pidgin can log in to multiple accounts on multiple IM networks simultaneously. This means that you can be chatting with friends on AIM, 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, and typing 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.
Pidgin runs on a number of platforms, including Windows, Linux, and other UNIX operating systems. Looking for Pidgin for OS X? Try Adium!
Pidgin integrates well with GNOME 2 and KDE 3.1`s system tray, as well as Windows` own system tray. This allows you to work with Pidgin without requiring the buddy list window to be open at all times.
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License : Open source
Download Size : 10235 kBytes
Last update : 11. July 2008
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Price : free
System requirements : unspecified
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Update history for Pidgin
Pidgin v2.4.3 ( 11. July 2008 )
Include the send button plugin in the win32 buildVarious memory leak fixes
Version 2.4.2 (05/17/2008)
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In MySpaceIM, messages from spambots are discarded (Justin Williams)
Strip mIRC formatting codes from quit and part messages.
IRC now displays ban lists in-channel for joined channels.
Fixed a bug where the list of loaded plugins would get removed when switching between different operating systems.
Fix reception of IRC PART without a part message on Undernet (fixes a problem with litter in the channel user list).
IRC no longer crashes on /list on servers which erroneously omit RPL_LISTSTART.
Update the NetworkManager support to use D-Bus directly, instead of libnm-glib. Hopefully it's stable now. It will now compile by default if you have D-Bus support and NetworkManager.h. (Elliott Sales de Andrade)
MSN buddy list synchronization is now more forgiving, only asking about buddies who have disappeared completely from the server list and not those that have simply moved groups.
IRC will now try to append 1-9 to your nick if it is in use, instead of substituting the last character with 1-9 where possible.
Bonjour buddies will be saved persistently if they're moved out of the "Bonjour" group. (Eion Robb)
Pidgin v2.4.2 ( 29. May 2008 )
The typing notification in the conversation history can be disabled or customized (font, color etc.) in .gtkrc-2.0.Added a plugin (not installed by default) which adds a Send button back to the conversation window. People without physical keyboards have a hard time with the lack of the button.
Clicking on the buddyicon in the conversation window toggles the size of the icon between small and large.
The settings of a chat (e.g. Handle in an XMPP chat, or Exchange in an AIM chat) can be edited from its context menu in the buddy list.
Add a "Present conversation window" preference to the Message Notification plugin; the "Raise conversation window" option does not unminimize windows or draw attention to them when they are on other workspaces--the "Present" option should.
Add a preference to set Escape as the keyboard shortcut for closing the conversation window.
Add an option in the context menu to disable smileys in the selected text in the conversation history/log viewer. This should help people who regularly paste code in conversations.
Add a preference to choose the minimum size of the text input area in lines.
Moved the "Local alias" field in the Modify Account dialog to be below the "User Options" heading on the "Basic" tab.
Number of room occupants is now shown in chat tooltips where possible
Pidgin v2.4.1 ( 18. April 2008 )
Remove a workaround for older versions gstreamer that was causing crashes on some non-Linux systems such as HPUXFix some cases of the conversation input entry area being 1 pixel high
Fix for displaying channel & buddy names in conversation window when they have '&' in them
Some memory leak fixes, especially in the Text Replacement plugin
Rectangular but non-square buddy icons have rounded corners in the buddy list
Pidgin v2.4.0 ( 3. March 2008 )
Input text area in conversation windows auto-resizes to fit more lines (up to a maximum of 4 lines)Added the ability to theme conversation name colors (red and blue) through your GTK+ theme, and exposed those theme settings to the Pidgin GTK+ Theme Control plugin (Dustin Howett)
Fixed having multiple alias edit areas in the infopane (Elliott Sales de Andrade)
Save the conversation "Enable Logging" option per-contact (Moos Heintzen)
Typing notifications are now shown in the conversation area
Pidgin v2.3.1 ( 24. February 2008 )
Fixed a number of MSN bugs introduced in 2.3.0, resolving problems connecting to MSN and random local display name changes Going idle on MySpaceIM will no longer clear your status and message.
Idle MySpaceIM buddies should now appear online at login.
Fixed crashes in XMPP when discovering a clien
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