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Gaim Maintainer Rob Flynn Interviewed

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the mover-shaker-and-stirrer dept.

gaimster writes "LinuxQuestions.org just interviewed gaim maintainer Rob Flynn. gaim version 1.0.0 was recently released and it has been the most active project on SourceForge for a while. In the interview, Rob explains what it's like to maintain such a popular project, how he got involved with gaim and what he thinks of some of the IM protocols that gaim supports. He also explains the Ebay auctions that gaim had a while back."

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  1. I love GAIM but ... by SpooForBrains · · Score: 5, Interesting

    GAIM is great, because it keeps pushing the boundaries of IM functionality on Linux, BUT that said, I keep switching back to Kopete, mainly because it integrates with KDE. For an IM client, intergration with the desktop is paramount IMHO.

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  2. gaim is great by deviantonline · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I have been using gaim for sometime over msn/icq and I think its fantastic! It is very stable and has been a staple of my linux desktop for some time. I have also converted many of my windows based friends to the program as well. One thing that is so nice about open source software is that in many cases it is available on multiple platforms.

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  3. Re:I use it everywhere... by bizpile · · Score: 4, Interesting

    It's actually a shame it isn't part of the OpenCD

    But it is on GNUWin, which is, in my opinion, slightly better that OpenCD (which itself is very good). It's how I got started converting my Windows box to only open source programs (except Windows, of course).

  4. New features? by wicka_wicka · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Maybe, before they start adding new features, they should work more on getting the thing completely stable. If I read a couple of my friend's infos, it crashes. If I reconnect and it doesn't work, it crashes. I think that should be a higher priority than a damn webcam.

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  5. gaim, ehhhh by miseryinmotion · · Score: 5, Interesting

    This will probably be modded as a troll considering it isn't the common Slashdot opinion, but oh well.

    I've used gaim off and on over the past year, (on both Linux and windows) and found that the windows port really doesn't compare at all to the Linux version, and to put it simply, on windows, it's really just a waste of resources.

    For all the windows users that can't stand the bloated msn messenger or latest official aim client, I suggest at least checking out Miranda. I was introduced to it a few weeks ago by a long time gaim user (who was fed up with all the inconsistencies and problems with gaim under windows) and have been using Miranda almost exclusively since then. Albeit, it has some current issues with file transfers, but I'm sure that's only a momentary problem.

  6. Phonegaim? by Goonie · · Score: 4, Interesting
    The Lindows people have hacked voice chat into gaim. They've called it PhoneGaim, and they claim they'd like to merge this into the main gaim tree.

    This functionality would be extremely nice to have. Does anybody know if there actually any plans to make this merge happen?

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