Re: Pidgin Refresh

2012-10-27 Thread Shlomi Fish
Hi Steven, On Sat, 27 Oct 2012 14:47:11 +0200 Steven Ferreira steven.ferreir...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Pidgin Project, I'm a big fan of the Pidgin project but also of the elementary project too. What is the elementary project? This returns nothing:

Re: Pidgin Refresh

2012-10-27 Thread David Woolley
Shlomi Fish wrote: Skype is proprietary and 32-bit only and is now owned by Microsoft (so its future on Linux is uncertain). Emesene and Empathy are open-source as well, and They are also single service clients. It should use GTK3 and even follow a completely new design concept. I

Re: Pidgin Refresh

2012-10-27 Thread Brian Morrison
On Sat, 27 Oct 2012 15:44:54 +0100 David Woolley for...@david-woolley.me.uk wrote: Unless a library offers a fundamental advantage, one should stick with the tried and trusted ones. Except that your distro has probably updated to new versions because they keep track of the latest upstream.

Re: Pidgin Refresh

2012-10-27 Thread David Woolley
Brian Morrison wrote: On Sat, 27 Oct 2012 15:44:54 +0100 David Woolley for...@david-woolley.me.uk wrote: Unless a library offers a fundamental advantage, one should stick with the tried and trusted ones. Except that your distro has probably updated to new versions because they keep track of

Re: Pidgin Refresh

2012-10-27 Thread Brian Morrison
On Sat, 27 Oct 2012 19:54:31 +0100 David Woolley for...@david-woolley.me.uk wrote: Brian Morrison wrote: On Sat, 27 Oct 2012 15:44:54 +0100 David Woolley for...@david-woolley.me.uk wrote: Unless a library offers a fundamental advantage, one should stick with the tried and trusted

Re: Pidgin Refresh

2012-10-27 Thread Kevin Stange
On 10/27/2012 07:47 AM, Steven Ferreira wrote: It should be rewritten and learn of his mistakes and perhaps follow new design guidelines. In our development process, we rewrite parts of the application periodically as new features require it, though some code that has worked well hasn't been

Fw: [Spam] Re: Pidgin Refresh

2012-10-27 Thread Shlomi Fish
Begin forwarded message: Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2012 20:19:53 +0100 From: Dave Davenport dave.davenp...@usa.net To: 'Shlomi Fish' shlo...@shlomifish.org Subject: RE: [Spam] Re: Pidgin Refresh I tried Pidgin and passed it over in favour of Yahoo Messenger. The main reasons were that YM supported:

Re: Pidgin Refresh

2012-10-27 Thread Tres Finocchiaro
I'd like to add to this discussion. Pidgin's popularity is affected directly by the popularity of in-browser messaging as well as the popularity cell phone SMS-style messaging. The UI is pretty fing good when compared to other GPL products. If you'd like it improved, please contribute

Re: new account,

2012-10-27 Thread Tres Finocchiaro
It is likely that your password has expired. Do you know how you connect? If it is SIPE (Communicator), try logging into windows (on a separate computer if needed) with the same account you use in Pidgin (check your account properties to make sure). If its not SIPE you will likely need to

spell check stop working

2012-10-27 Thread j m
I have been using pidgin for many years now and all of a sudden (as of a few months ago) my spell checker stop working on it I need to get it fixed or I may have to uninstall pidgin and find something else to use in it's place instead I don;t want to do that cause I love my pidgin, but I need