yock
TFTC
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join:2000-11-21
Fairfield, OH | reply to CO_Chris
GAIM
Another good alternative to AIM is GAIM. It's an GNU/GPL open source alternative that has come a long way in the last few years, and it's available for all major OSes. |
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fenix_ds
join:2001-08-03
Charlotte, NC
| you're right, I use GAIM and it's come a very long way, now with its 0.76 version, with transparency option, etc.
However, it has some issues with Yahoo! IM, and sometimes crashes under Windows
For anyone interested: »sourceforge.net/projects/gaim/
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koitsu
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join:2002-07-16
Mountain View, CA
1 edit | I wish I could agree. One of the most common problems with *IX-developed applications that rely on X is that their authors have absolutely no idea what the "U" in UI stands for.
Also, if you read their Windows port page, you'll find all sorts-of general idiocy, involving blaming buggy DLLs and yadda yadda for what actually look to be bugs with the (absolutely horrid) Win32 port of GTK. All of this cross-platform voodoo could be circumented if X programmers began using wxWindows, sigh...
»www.wxwindows.org/
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reub2000
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join:2001-12-28
Evanston, IL | What bugs? I haven't had any problems on windows that I haven't had on linux. |
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koitsu
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join:2002-07-16
Mountain View, CA | See: »gaim.sourceforge.net/win32/index.php, section labelled Major Win Gaim bugs and Workarounds.
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sharksfan3
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join:2004-02-16
Poughkeepsie, NY | GAIM kicks @ss. I will NEVER go back to regular AIM software. |
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