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Games Come to Pidgin

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the c-is-dead-long-live-c dept.

Tovok7 writes "Free software instant messengers have long been lacking the support to play games with your friends. The waiting is finally over, because today Pidgin Games was released. It comes as plugins for the popular Instant Messenger Pidgin and is running under Linux and Windows. The special thing about Pidgin Games is that it is written in the new programming language Vala which has a C# like syntax, but compiles to pure C."

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  1. Re:are you kidding me by winphreak · · Score: 5, Informative

    It's a plugin, not a core component.

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  2. The real news is Vala by outZider · · Score: 4, Informative

    Why have I never seen Vala featured on Slashdot before? If anything, the language intrigues me, and seems to be a nice way to get OO GTK going on without silly C hacks or writing it in Perl/Python.

    When on earth did this happen?

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    1. Re:The real news is Vala by joNDoty · · Score: 4, Informative

      I suppose a Wikipedia link is in order:
      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vala_(programming_language)

  3. Try Carrier by zjbs14 · · Score: 3, Informative

    (Formerly FunPidgin) Forked after the resize box debacle. http://funpidgin.sourceforge.net/

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  4. Re:are you kidding me by DigDuality · · Score: 4, Informative

    oh, their minds have been lost for some time now. Just not on this issue. I love how they can spend time pissing off users over the insert text size mod, and how they waste Google Summer of Code on projects like Myspace integration and finch, but still can't implement jingle properly.

  5. Re:are you kidding me by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    Myspace integration may be a waste, but there's nothing wasted about Finch. I've used it, and needed to use it, a few times and it was a life saver. It uses a console and you don't. Leave it at that.

  6. Re:are you kidding me by Utoxin · · Score: 2, Informative

    This is already done. Set your emoticon image set to 'None'.

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  7. Re:are you kidding me by oddfox · · Score: 2, Informative

    Yes, the Pidgin devs make some decisions that the users don't like, but if they are really as bad as people claim then anybody who thinks he/she can do better should fork it.

    Yeah, maybe someone should look into forking...

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