Pidgin

Tyler Aviss tjaviss-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org
Sun Jan 17 19:21:13 UTC 2010


Just certain versions of pidgin having issues with MSN. (notably in Ubuntu
9.04).

For myself, I was noting that they've had "support" for the QQ (Chinese chat
client) network for years, but it's never actually worked so I wonder that
they don't just remove it.

On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 11:06 AM, Abidel Bassie-Cripps
<mrsabidel-FFYn/CNdgSA at public.gmane.org>wrote:

> Sorry Guys!
>
> I missed something! What is wrong with Pidgin? And you left out Empathy.
> I'm still using Pidgin and on Ubuntu 8.04, 9.04 & 9.10
>
> Abby
>
> --- On *Fri, 1/15/10, Tyler Aviss <tjaviss-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org>* wrote:
>
>
> From: Tyler Aviss <tjaviss-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org>
> Subject: Re: [TLUG]: Pidgin
> To: tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org
> Received: Friday, January 15, 2010, 9:42 AM
>
>
> On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 8:37 AM, G. Matthew Rice <matt-s/rLXaiAEBtBDgjK7y7TUQ at public.gmane.org<http://mc/compose?to=matt-s/rLXaiAEBtBDgjK7y7TUQ@public.gmane.org>>
> wrote:
> > On Thu, 2010-01-07 at 16:14 -0500, Myles Braithwaite wrote:
> >> What protocol are you trying to connect to?
> >
> > My guess is MSN.  I had to go to pidgin's home for the latest version.
> > I'm on ubuntu 8.04 on my desktop and they didn't seem to consider xthe
> > MSN protocol change worthy of an update.
> >
> > HTH,
> > --matt
> >
> >>
> >> On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 4:10 PM, Devon Aitken <devonrose-Bm8TULXj0r/3fQ9qLvQP4Q at public.gmane.org<http://mc/compose?to=devonrose-Bm8TULXj0r/3fQ9qLvQP4Q@public.gmane.org>>
> wrote:
> >> > My siblings used to use gaim with Linux. I'm a new Linux user and when
> I
> >> > installed with sudo apt-get install gaim it came up as Pidgin. When I
> tried
> >> > to use it it said that the server does not support our protocol. Is
> there
> >> > anyway around this?
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> They've had an option for QQ (Chinese ICQ-type program which is *very*
> popular overseas) for a long tmie, but I don't think I've gotten it to
> work in the last 1-2 years as it uses outdated protocols. I'm not sure
> why they don't just remove the older stuff that doesn't work - at
> least until it's fixed - but in the meantime I suppose the option is
> to use aMSN or possibly "kopete" for MSN, and maybe Eva for QQ, etc.
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Tyler Aviss
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