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Gaim Releases Version 1.0.0
bfree writes "Congratulations to all in the gaim team as they release for download version 1.0.0 (changelog). For those who don't know what gaim is, you could read the full answer on their site but for the lazy: 'Gaim is a multi-protocol instant messaging (IM) client for Linux, BSD, MacOS X, and Windows. It is compatible with AIM (Oscar and TOC protocols), ICQ, MSN Messenger, Yahoo!, IRC, Jabber, Gadu-Gadu, and Zephyr networks.' Gaim is also the 2nd most active project on Sourceforge and the 4th most popular on Freshmeat and seemingly all round #1 Free IM client!"
Long discussion on name change. To sum it up, just because.
Adiumx has a really straight forward user interface, and feels very mac-like. It supports a laundry list of protocols, but keeps things simple yet powerful in terms of UI.
True, you won't find all the gee-gaws from iChat AV a la video/teleconfrencing, but it's a well written program that does IM extremely well (much better than iChat ... *cough* tabs, easily set up for multiple users of the same computer, etc *cough*).
And it's not resource intensive.
gaim-vv
No, Gaim is almost always on top. They're pretty good about having a two-week release schedule.
You can check out #gaim on freenode and actually see how active it really is. Most of the developers are there on a daily basis working on stuff.
No, they made it quite clear in the IRC, and in the lists that it has nothing to do with core goals met. Simply wanted a new, more flexible naming scheme then "number of releases" which was broken anyways during 0.59.x
Not to burst anyone's bubble... but i've been waiting for this story to hit the front page just so i could!
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This isn't a 1.0 release it is a 1.0.0 release: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thre
All it means is that future releases will be in X.Y.Z format. X will mean a change to the API breaking old plugins, Y is any other change, and Z is pretty much meaningless.
I'm not exactly sure why they went to 1.0 either - although it has been much more stable than ever before (since 0.7). I guess they figured that it was good enough to "officially" release.
For those interested, here is the changelog from the sourceforge site:
version 1.0.0 (09/17/2004):
New Features:
* Drag-and-drop buddy support for the Invite dialog (Stu Tomlinson)
* Drag-and-drop buddy support for the Pounce dialog (Stu Tomlinson)
* View Chat log available from the interface (Daniel Atallah)
* Ability to receive offline messages in character encodings
other than ASCII (thanks to Nick Sukharev)
* File transfer status messages printed to conversation
windows (Dave West)
* Display file transfer messages when someone sends you a file
over AIM (Dave West)
* Handle MSN buddy lists more sanely (Felipe Contreras)
* Zephyr can use tzc to run from behind a firewall (Arun A Tharuvai)
Bug Fixes:
* Work around window manager stupidity with new dialog windows (Dave West)
* Compile with gtk 2.5.x (Gary Kramlich)
* Escape invalid characters in log names (Daniel Atallah)
* Fix for clicking add in an msn chat with 2 or more people in your buddy
list (Daniel Atallah)
In theory, theory always works in practice. In practice, theory rarely works. <><
People have (and we knew this way ahead of the actual release) this horrible misconception that 1.0.0 is Gaim's first major stable release, but for those too lazy to read the discussion on the mailing list, Gaim's versioning is very simple, and 1.0.0 is completely insignificant. We could have started at 12.8.17, but 1.0.0 is a nice place to start numbering from and not break package managers version comparison logic or seeming too completely random....
Example versioning:
1.0.0: First release with this numbering system
1.0.1: No changes to Gaim's API; New features, bugfixes
1.1.0: New Gaim API added; none removed or changed
1.2.0: Same as above
2.0.0: Gaim API changed or removed breaking plugins or anyone using libgaim.
2.0.1: No changes to API; New features & bugfixes
2.0.2: et cetera
As I placed in the topic of #Gaim:
1.0.0! Not special in any way, other than that you should be using it.
I don't care, but don't let that stop you from trying to tell me anyway.
Yes and no. IMHO it's up to the end user to decide what their IM needs are, and choose based on that.
Miranda is a fantastic program - really small with plenty of plugins. The interface is much more responsive than Gaim - it's a very lean program.
That said, one thing GAIM can do is provide the ability to chat in Yahoo rooms. Miranda sadly can't do that (to the best of my knowledge).
I have both installed - they are both quality open source programs with very active communities.
For those of you who are sick of using the Sametime client, Meanwhile is a plugin for Gaim to let you use Sametime.
It's availible from http://meanwhile.sourceforge.net/
RegardselFarto
Actually, if you turn off "Show Buddy Icons" (somewhere in the Preferences), Gaim shows only the 16x16 protocol icons, which makes for a buddy list which is a lot more compact, therefore smaller as well, especially without the ads.
The problem of directory sizes, is that Gaim installs all possible languages -- you can set LANG=?? as an environment variable and get Gaim in that language. I suppose you can delete the unnecessary language files to save space. And from the looks of it, you're using ICQlite. Whatever happened to the full-blown ICQ, which installed a light web-server so people can visit your "homepage" and even chat to you through a Java-Applet of sorts.
What time is it/will be over there? Check with my iPhone app!