Adium loves gaim. But why?

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Gaim or gaim but never GAIM.
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Zorg wrote:After trying Kopete out myself, I'd recommend to stick with libgaim. I've only tried Kopete with AIM but there weren't that many great features compared to what GAIM offers us. Also, it's AIM un-friendly from what I saw; I re-organized, deleted, and added a few buddies on AOL Instant Messenger and opened up Kopete with the same screename, but it didn't exactly respect the changes I've made.

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Re: Adium loves gaim. But why?

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Jona wrote:Something I've been curious for some time now... I recently installed Kubunutu on my linux box, and with KDE came Kopete, KDE's own chat client. And Kopete features everything the libgaim project is so desperatedly working to implement, such as cam support and msn status messages (not autoreplies: small messages displayed under your user name in the buddies list, just like adium does with icq and other protocols).

Why, in all the world, is adium based on gaim, when Kopete (and probably many other open source clients) seem to have come so much further? I am sure there is a good reason, but since I can't find it meself, I'm asking you ;-)
Overall, the contact we've had with the Kopete folks has been good, but they are a lot younger than Gaim, so the most optimal choice at the time was indeed Gaim.

At the same time, we have to be cautious. There's the joscar stuff, then the chatkit stuff, telepathy may or may not work out for things, and then there is libgaim 2. Throwing in libkopete might be ok, but then again it will be a whole new set of problems.
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evands wrote:Gaim or gaim but never GAIM.
Ah. I thought it was GAIM; isn't it the GNU AOL Instant Messenger? Oh well, I'm probably wrong :/.

-Zorg:-.
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Zorg wrote:
evands wrote:Gaim or gaim but never GAIM.
Ah. I thought it was GAIM; isn't it the GNU AOL Instant Messenger? Oh well, I'm probably wrong :/.

-Zorg:-.
http://gaim.sourceforge.net/faq.php#q1
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Catfish_Man wrote:
Jona wrote:<snipped talk about Wizards>
*Catfish_Man casts magic missile at the darkness*

(bonus points to anyone who gets the reference :D )
I was gunna say Lightning's Shadow.

Kiel :-(
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