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macyzhu
4 days, 10 hours ago
Pidgin (formerly Gaim) is an all-in-one IM client that resembles AIM. Gaim lets you use AIM, ICQ, Yahoo, MSN, IRC, Jabber, Zephyr, and Gadu-Gadu all at once. It is not endorsed by or affiliated with AOL, Yahoo, or MSN.
Latest changes:
- In the Join/Part plugin, add the ability to apply the rules to buddies. By default, joins and parts for buddies are still shown
- Support SOCKS proxies specified in GNOME or Windows proxy settings
- Fix some possible crashes in MSNP15
- Enable a default SSL trust relationship for MSN servers
- Avoid disconnecting from XMPP servers on parse errors that are non-fatal
- Include some perl files that were mistakenly omitted in 2.5.0
- Prevent use of custom smilies without "shortcuts."
- Fix a crash that could appear with AIM buddy tooltips
- General refresh of many icons in the interface
- Many cleanups to artwork source are now included in the distribution
- A new "throbber" animation has been added to indicate when accounts are connecting
