Pidgin 2.13 Linux Desktop Instant Messaging Client Released

[audi.rs4]

Most people I converse with through Hangouts. I was using the Chrome Application/Extension, but recently switched back to Pidgin as it goes well with my Linux dark theme. It also works with my works Skype for Business, so I can connect and do most of my work from my personal Linux laptop, which is nice. I feel the current interface works nicely with dark themes, but welcome to hear it has been improved now too.

[DRanged]

I use teamspeak, we have our own TS3 sever running on the NAS, viber and because of some stick in the mud family Skype.
Don't use hangouts or whatever as I get the feeling Google is watching me.

[kneekoo]

It took me 1h to find the source code of Pidgin, only to see that it's still using Mercurial - ugh.

I found it in about 30 seconds, although I haven't checked their website in years. From their main page I clicked DEVELOPMENT in their main (top) menu, and in the For Developers category I noticed Browse Source in bold.

For the amount of resources they have in their developer area I agree they could offer a separate link for downloading the source, but while I checked their download page I noticed they have Source there as well. But 1 hour? You probably had something much better to do while you peaked at their website, intermittently.

[Licaon]

Pidgin is the past, their XMPP support is b0rken, making its usage a pain for others with up to date clients.

I recommend Gajim (version 1.0.1 is out!) or the new Dino ( https://dino.im ), hey even Jabbercat ( https://jabbercat.org/ ), these are up to date XMPP clients, that supports all the XEPs you'd want/need (carbons, MAM, OMEMO, etc), also they're constantly updating, not once a year like Pidgin does.

Too bad Pidgin is the *known* client, it leaves a bad taste, and the wrong impression for new users.

[waxhead]

Still use Pidgin. Have no troubles with XMPP yet - works fine for chatting with is the point. Some other clients take up all of the screen space as well, a chat client should be minimal and above all compact so it says out of your way most of the time!

[Guest]

I agree. But most OSS people don't because GitHub is proprietary and GitLab is the almighty new king for them. But I like GitHub's interface much, much better.

That's the same thing. Both are platforms where anyone can do pull requests.

[Vistaus]

I use teamspeak, we have our own TS3 sever running on the NAS, viber and because of some stick in the mud family Skype.
Don't use hangouts or whatever as I get the feeling Google is watching me.

Really, Teamspeak still? I thought everyone moved on to Discord but seems like I was wrong...

[misGnomer]

Many systems I keep an eye on are middle-aged hardware running older LTS distro releases (very well thank you) but some key apps like good old Pidgin here aren't getting updates and with gmail users recently force-herded into the proprietary "hangouts" Goo-pen it's clearly time to un-herd and seek fresher pastures.

Got to remember to remind people not to get too involved with Google's eventually private "eco-systems".

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Pidgin should integrate OTR and become more privacy focused client. I still don't know why they don't do it. They could improve IRC support by offering traditional IRC UI elements such as a command console and XMPP specific UI features such as service discovery.

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Pidgin is the past, their XMPP support is b0rken, making its usage a pain for others with up to date clients.

I recommend Gajim (version 1.0.1 is out!) or the new Dino ( https://dino.im ), hey even Jabbercat ( https://jabbercat.org/ ), these are up to date XMPP clients, that supports all the XEPs you'd want/need (carbons, MAM, OMEMO, etc), also they're constantly updating, not once a year like Pidgin does.

Too bad Pidgin is the *known* client, it leaves a bad taste, and the wrong impression for new users.

I second that. It would be good, if Pidgin could add better protocol support for this and for IRC, and add some typical UI idioms for IRC like a command console.