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No, I doubt it -- but you might try everybuddy. It does icq, aim, yahoo, and MSN. It's still only partially functional (while others get it work great with ICQ, I have been unable to get it to send messages; receiving ICQ messages works great, however), but it's a nice little package. As it improves, it looks like it will be pretty good.

-schussat

Makes me wonder, though; Yahoo just sorta released it shortly after AOL released AIM for Linux... I guess Yahoo had this client all along? It's version 0.93.0 so unless they're playing a version number game, they've been developing it for a while... All around sleek looking though. For other open-source Yahoo clients, check out Chimmy's Yahoo Client (ncurses/console based), GTKyahoo (the link off freshmeat 404's for me... hmm--it's www.unixtools.org/gtkyahoo/) and Everybuddy.

Everybuddy does ICQ, AIM, Yahoo and MSN messengers... but the buddy list interface takes some getting used to.

"ICQ clients could use the AIM interface, but for some reason every client I've seen takes after the horrable crappy original ICQ interface. Anyone know of one that doesn't?"

Yes.

http://www.everybuddy.com/

Don't forget Everybuddy. Make sure to get the latest CVS source -- it's a bit crash-prone but more feature-rich than the stable release.

Why fiddle around with one chat protocol at a time? I'll take Everybuddy any day. Even over the new AOL client, btw, but I guess I might download it to check it out.

Anyway, check out everybuddy. You can chat via AOL, ICQ, Yahoo (maybe more?) all from one program. It's much nicer IMO than AOL's crappy java app.

Check out Everybuddy.

In fact, with minimal additions, IRC could be the basis for a global, distributed IM system.

That would be a really good idea. Perhaps somebody could hack something into Everybuddy to send private messages over IRC. Of course, there would have to be a special channel with a bot that manages buddy notification.

If we had such a client, we could run our own IM network

That's easy. Just take some code from a common IRC client and add it to EveryBuddy. Any takers?

Take a look at Everybuddy. This is a great Unix program that does exactly that. Many bells and whistles, too (like spell checking). No plans for a non-Unix version.

Everybuddy is at www.everybuddy.com. I use it (it does AIM, ICQ, Yahoo, and MSN, but I only use the first two) and it works pretty well. It still is a bit lacking in the feature department -- you can't set default means of contact without editing the config file by hand, you can't view info or away messages, you can't do any cool ICQ extended features, etc. -- but it's coming along. I like it because it's lightweight, ad-free, and doesn't require me to run two programs. I even have two AIM screen names in there, just in case people are still used to messaging me through my old name.

It's worth the download, IMO. Hopefully it'll only get better over time.

I like the way Everybuddy does it - each user on your contact list can have an arbitrary number of user IDs for any of the supported IM systems associated with it. If the user comes online on any of the accounts it shows the user as online. I think there's a way to set a preferred protocol to use if the user is online using more than one system.

Also see the poster who mentioned Jabber.

get everybuddy. Then you can do both from the same program.

www.everybuddy.com

It also does yahoo and MSN.


-- Bucket

Check out Everybuddy

It currently uses the TOC protocol, which is the Used-to-be-open protocol that gaim and tik and every other aim clone uses. It doesn't have all the features that OSCAR has, like file transfer and all that. If the OSCAR protocol is opened up then all the clones will increase in quality across the board. If they are just "re-opening" TOC, then nothing will change really.

But if people are looking for something that uses multiple services in one client, check out Everybuddy.

Ben Rigas

I see some people have already posted links to the everybuddy home page, but I would like to give an update as to what we are doing.

Yahoo messanger support is now there as of release 0.0.6, and we have someone working on MSN messenger support, so we should have 4 services running before the end of the year. We will support any part of these services as we can, including file transfer. These other features will take time to implement, please be patient or help out.

We are beginning to talk about creating an everybuddy server, which would hold contact info for all your accounts, so you would only have to log in once with your everybuddy account, and get all your icq, aim etc contacts.

If anyone has suggestions as to how we should implement the server with good security, feel free to join our mailing list or just email any one of us listed on the web site.

Someone asked about a win32 version, and the answer is yes we are working on it. We ran into a snag when we first tried to do this, and the win32 port of gtk isn't to stable from what I understand. Again, if anyone is interested in helping out, go to the web site.

There is a voting page on the web site that you can submit new feature requests. the new requests then get voted on, showing us which features are the most important.

The web site

The voting page

Everybuddy will support all native file transfer stuff if it exists. The published protocol for AIM does not have file transfer.

Everything we can support we will, we are not implementing our own chat protocol. I think the reason we did file transfer, is to give the ability to do so for those using aim and any other protocol which doesnt support file transfer, at least with other EB clients.

If you want to discuss it further, please sign up for our mailing list, there is info on www.everybuddy.com

This is a quote from the "Everybuddy" homepage: As of right now, Everybuddy has support for AIM, ICQ, and Yahoo! chat programs. It also has file transfer between other Everybuddy users, and planned support for file transfer to other users. You can find this at http://www.everybuddy.com/ I've tried the ICQ aspect but I suspect it's still in beat (current stable release is 0.0.6).

Everybuddy aims to do just this - one client, multiple services.

EveryBuddy already has support for AIM, ICQ, and now Yahoo! in the cvs code. There should be a new release (and a new web site) this weekend.

EveryBuddy's web site.

Support for MS Messenger is planned, work is just starting on that. Any other services that people would like to see in EveryBuddy?

Everybuddy is an attempt to combine an ICQ and AOL Instant Messenger client (And maybe one day every chat protocol in existance? Is that a big dream?) into a single, fairly coherent interface. Nobody does what Everybuddy is trying to do. ;-)