Gaim - (Open Source)
Chatting with friends on AOL Instant Messenger, talking to a friend on Yahoo Messenger and stay on an IRC channel at the same time is possible when using Pidgin software.
Pidgin is an email client that allows to chat with MSN, Google Talk, AIM, ICQ and other contacts, from a single interface. Available in several languages, this software offers convenient features to comfortably talk.
Pidgin software brings together in a single window the AIM, ICQ, Google Talk, Jabber / XMPP, MSN Messenger, Yahoo!, Bonjour, Gadu- Gadu, IRC, Lotus Sametime, SILC, SIMPLE, MXit, MySpaceIM and Zephyr contacts.
The application gives the ability to chat with multiple contacts at once even if they come from different networks discussion. It is even possible to make a conference if necessary.
Even if the icons of contacts for each account are already marked by their respective icons, it does not prevent the user to create customized friends, relatives, colleagues categories, etc.
Pidgin offers several smileys to liven up the discussion. As the software supports adding plugins, user can also download more smileys on the Internet to enrich the library.
* General:
- Fix compilation when using binutils 2.22 and new GDK pixbuf.
- Fix compilation of the MXit protocol plugin with GLib 2.31.
* Pidgin:
- Add support for the GNOME3 Network dialog.
- Fix rare crash.
- Add support for the GNOME3 Default Application dialog for configuring the Browser.
* libpurple:
- Support new connection states and signals for NetworkManager 0.9+.
* AIM and ICQ:
- Fix a possible crash when receiving an unexpected message from the server.
- Allow signing on with usernames containing periods and underscores.
- Allow adding buddies containing periods and underscores.
- Don't try to format ICQ usernames entered as email addresses. Gets rid of an "Unable to format username" error at login.
* MSN:
- Fix possible crashes caused by not validating incoming messages as UTF-8.
- Support new protocol version MSNP18.
- Fix messages to offline contacts.
* Windows-Specific Changes:
- Fix the installer downloading of spell-checking dictionaries
- Fix compilation of the Bonjour protocol plugin.
* Plugins:
- The autoaccept plugin will no longer reset the preference for unknown buddies to "Auto Reject" in certain cases.