AIM 6.9

[Afrobean]

Originally Posted by who_cares973

i hate how pidgin handles multiple IM's

How do you mean? The tabbed system with them grouped according to the groups of your buddy list?

You can turn that off, or if you like tabs, you can move them around, pull them off into their own window, it's actually a pretty robust feature.

I don't see how there is any problem with how the software handles multiple IMs.

[who_cares973]

i dont like that the tabs are on top it annoys the hell out of me. i much prefer the way aim has the tab system set up

[fido123]

I find one of the few things Pigeon does better than everybody else is handle multiple IM's. It has a tabbed system, however if somebody messages you their name on the tab turns blue, and you just press Ctrl + Tab once to bring you directly to the tabs with unread messages in them in order. Also when somebody is typing their name turns green. You can also drag tabs out of the window to form their own window. No other application has this many features, and the features don't make it any more complicated at all, if not simpler depending on your preferences.

EDIT: Having them on the side or on top makes no difference, you're simple just USED to having them on the side and I bet within a few days or a week or so, you'll be fine with them on top. When I switched operating systems it annoyed the hell out of me having what you would know as the start menu on the top rather than the bottom, I got used to it and now it pisses me off when I use Windows and it's on the bottom, and I'm unable to switch that around.

[virus003]

Originally Posted by fido123

i would take a new pic of your desktop
i mean
hi keygen

[fido123]

Originally Posted by virus003

i would take a new pic of your desktop
i mean
hi keygen

As long as I'm not giving you the link for it I'm fine ;D

[who_cares973]

Originally Posted by fido123

EDIT: Having them on the side or on top makes no difference, you're simple just USED to having them on the side and I bet within a few days or a week or so, you'll be fine with them on top. When I switched operating systems it annoyed the hell out of me having what you would know as the start menu on the top rather than the bottom, I got used to it and now it pisses me off when I use Windows and it's on the bottom, and I'm unable to switch that around.

i used ubuntu for a little over a month and couldnt get used to the way the tabbing was in pidgin which is why i dont like aim 7.0 they do the same thing. also have the tabs at the top doesnt seem like a great idea when you have more than 5 IMs going at once which is why i like the way aim is doing it now.

[Dimitri13]

MirandaIM

[Izzy]

Pidgin can connect to google talk.

[who_cares973]

who uses google talk

[Izzy]

Evilbutterfly apparently. I have pidgin connect to my gmail, but no one ever talks to me through that.

[who_cares973]

but thats for work lol

i wonder how many people actually use google talk

[evilbutterfly]

Honestly the only reason we use it is because some hotshot retiree businessman got hired here and insisted that we NEEDED it for interoffice communication. I think his argument was that with AIM or YIM we'd run the risk of employees talking to existing contacts, whereas (as you've all noted) nobody uses Google Talk.

To say the least, he got fired. Or quit? I don't know, he's not here anymore. But Google Talk still is. We mainly just use it when the (overly loud) AC kicks in and we can't hear each other speak. =P