Pidgin 2.0 Released

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Friday May 4, 2007 @12:17AM from the carrier-pidgins dept.

An anonymous reader writes "After nearly two years of development, Pidgin 2.0 has finally been released! Originally called Gaim, Pidgin is a powerful and robust open source instant messaging client that supports many protocols. Pidgin 2.0 features a completely redesigned interface with attractive new icons and and a new status management system that was designed for optimal usability. Pidgin 2.0 also adds support for universal buddy icon management and smooth-scroll functionality for conversation windows. A comprehensive review at Ars Technica explores the new features in Pidgin 2.0 and demonstrates how to use the new D-Bus bindings with Python to make Pidgin's status system send updates to Twitter."

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VoIP by utnapistim · 2007-05-04 00:24 · Score: 4, Interesting

So ... will it support VoIP?

If it connects with GTalk (for example) it would be cool (and long overdue)

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Pfft. by kraemate · 2007-05-04 00:28 · Score: 4, Interesting

I cant believe that there is no jingle support yet.
IIRC, google released a library for voice extensions to the XMPP protocol quite a while back. When is gaim/pidgin going to incorporate it - so that i can make calls to gtalk users? The other clients like psi, kopete have already done this - why cant gaim?