[ale] Multiprotocol chat client recommendations

[Michael D. Hirsch]

On Thursday 14 October 2004 01:04 pm, Warren Myers wrote:
> I've found Kopete to be difficult to use, though it may be the version
> that came with my install of Mandrake 10 at the time.

It was still fairly new at the time.  It's quite a bit better, now, in 3.3.

Do you remember what was difficult?  I found it to be no different than GAIM, 
except that it had tabbed windows and GAIM didn't, back then.

Michael

> On Thu, 14 Oct 2004 12:43:54 -0400, Michael D. Hirsch
>
> <mhirsch at nubridges.com> wrote:
> > On Thursday 14 October 2004 11:09 am, Barry Hawkins wrote:
> > > Does anyone have recommendations on good multiprotocol chat clients for
> > > Linux?  I am running Debian unstable w/KDE 3.3.  I use Fire on Mac OS X
> > > and have gotten used to having my Yahoo!, AIM, MSN, and ICQ accounts
> > > all in one app.
> >
> > If you're using KDE 3.3, then definitely check out kopete.  It's part of
> > KDE 3.3, so it's probably already installed.  It appears to support AIM,
> > Gadu-Gadu, ICQ, IRC, Jabber, MSN, SMS, and Yahoo.  I only use AIM and
> > Yahoo, myself.
> >
> > I don't think it supports file sending or the little picture to represent
> > yourself, but otherwise it is very solid.  It integrates nicely into the
> > KDE system tray (as does GAIM).
> >
> > Michael
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