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Gaim, what can you tell me?
Posted: 2005-07-26 10:10pm
by LadyTevar
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http://gaim.sourceforge.net/
A friend suggested this instead of AIM... anyone tried it?
Re: Gaim, what can you tell me?
Posted: 2005-07-26 10:12pm
by RogueIce
I use it. Aside from not being able to transfer files for some reason (maybe that was just me, but when I booted up AIM it worked), it works pretty well. You might have to play with some of the included functions to get some of what AIM offers though (like not cluttering up your taskbar when it's running), and I don't think it'll do that handfy pop-up notification thing like AIM did.
Posted: 2005-07-26 10:15pm
by phongn
I use GAIM and I like it quite a bit.
Posted: 2005-07-26 10:16pm
by RogueIce
phongn wrote:I use GAIM and I like it quite a bit.
Does GAIM do YIM as well?
Not that I'd use YIM on a widescale basis, but I am interested to see if a friend of mine really uses it, and only one way to find out...
Posted: 2005-07-26 10:18pm
by phongn
Gaim does indeed do YIM.
Posted: 2005-07-26 10:52pm
by RogueIce
phongn wrote:Gaim does indeed do YIM.
Indeed it does. You now appear on my buddy list twice thanks to this. Congrats.
EDIT: Silly typo. Trix are for kids!
Posted: 2005-07-26 10:53pm
by bilateralrope
RogueIce wrote:phongn wrote:I use GAIM and I like it quite a bit.
Does GAIM do YIM as well?
Not that I'd use YIM on a widescale basis, but I am interested to see if a friend of mine really uses it, and only one way to find out...
according to
wikipedia gaim handles :
* AOL Instant Messenger (via OSCAR or TOC protocols)
* Gadu-Gadu
* ICQ (via OSCAR)
* Internet Relay Chat
* Jabber (XMPP)
* MSN Messenger
* Novell Groupwise
* OpenNAP
* Yahoo! Messenger
* Zephyr
* SILC
I am switched to gaim recently since trillian has been having trouble connecting to msn messenger lately. I've only used it a few days, but I'm not planning to switch back, especially since gaim is a multi-platform client
Posted: 2005-07-26 11:57pm
by Alferd Packer
I use it on my Linux machine. The tabbed message windows are a lovely idea. Especially for me, since during the infrequent times I us AIM of GAIM, I get hammered with about half a dozen chat windows all at once.
Re: Gaim, what can you tell me?
Posted: 2005-07-26 11:59pm
by Mad
I use it and like it. I use it for AIM, MSN, YIM, and ICQ. (You don't have to break the link to that site, by the way.)
RogueIce wrote:and I don't think it'll do that handfy pop-up notification thing like AIM did.
You can get the
Guifications plugin. Also, you can check out the
plugins page for other handy plugins.