Nick Sabalausky wrote: > I've actually come close to making my own IM client out of > frustration, but libpidgin was a pain
Hah, I started one as well, with only aim support. It actually kinda works (and written in D), but I keep changing my D gui stuff around (this program is one of the D Windowing System test apps, which changes then stagnates then changes then is tabled then changes...) that it's not really usable. I basically settled for gaim 1.5 with a few modifications. Annoyingly, bugs have crept in as the stupid gtk or glib updates and gaim doesn't, but I know it's limits so if it crashes when I close a tab, I just don't close tabs like that. Gaim is one of those programs that went to pure crap with a new version though. Pidgin, gaim 2.0, is just utterly unusable to me. > Lol, or maybe I'll go back to blackbox ;) Blackbox rocks. It's what I used as my starting point. Actually, my custom WM is a fairly short diff from blackbox. It's biggest shortcoming, but that's a gift as well as a curse - it leaves the door open to put in a customized one! > Unfortunately, I don't have the time or patience to do any heavy > customizing/configuring. If I did, I might not have been driven > away from Linux when I first tried it ten years ago. What happened with me is I kinda locked myself into it. Switching away would be an even bigger hassle due to moving files and such, so I stuck with it, slowly excising the worst of the suck. The thing that still pisses me off beyond belief is something I can't fix myself - interoperability, the topic of this thread. (see I'm still on topic!)
