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A First Look At Gaim 2.0

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the talk-talk dept.

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.

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  1. Auto away by klui · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Does anyone know how GAIM 1.5's auto-away works? It doesn't look like it works. I use Jabber and if I manually set my status to away, it creates an away dialog where I can click "I'm back." But if I just let my session idle, the dialog box showed up say maybe 2 or 3 times (I'm also concurrently connected to an AIM and Yahoo account). And I've never seen any documentation (too lazy to look at code) that describes the difference between Idle Time Reporting: Gaim usage vs. Windows usage. But selecting either one doesn't seem to help. Auto-away is checked.

  2. Kopete by ThePhilips · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    My friend uses Kopete and says it integrates with KDE better than GAIM with GNOME. He uses ICQ, AOL and GTalk networks w/o any problems.

    I personally (historically) use Linux and (long ago fixed pre-utf8) poor support for internationalization as an excuses to not run IMs under Linux. Leaves more time for work. ;-)

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