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A First Look At Gaim 2.0
surgicaltubing writes to spotlight the progress towards vesion 2.0 for Gaim, the open source, multi-protocol IM client. "The Gaim 2.0 release is nearing its home stretch. The Gaim team released beta 4 last week, with a number of new features and UI improvements." Linux.com and Slashdot are both part of OSTG.
Sarcasm aside, beta 4 hit portage a while ago and the 2.0 beta's have been very useable and stable. Infact the damn things been in beta for ages and ages and ages.
Personally I feel 2.0 is a huge improvement on 1.5 on the GUI front, especially on the presentation of your buddy lists.
I'm happy to see they moved away from the treeview preference style and on to tabs. To me, it's easier to hit a tab than that darned little + to expand.
Mr. Universe: "They can't stop the signal, Mal. They can never stop the signal."
> Surely it's not too much of a hassle to encrypt the passwords? Are passwords encrypted in the later versions of the beta?
Encrypting passwords would be (almost) pointless. In order to use them, Gaim would have to decrypt them first. Which means either:
1) You would have to give Gaim the decryption key in order to login - which defeats the point of storing passwords in the first place, or
2) Gaim would use its own key - in which case, anyone else could use that key to decrypt your passwords.
The only solution would be to use some kind of a wallet (like KDE's) - but it's still a hassle.
That said, it would be nice to encode the passwords in some way - in hex, whatever. Just imagine that you use some word in your password, and then search for that word in Google Desktop / Beagle / whatever...