Pidgin 2.7.8

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.

Title:: Pidgin 2.7.8
File Size:: 9.1 MB
Requirements:: Windows (All Versions)
Language:: en-us
License:: Open Source
Date Added:: 19 Dec 2010
Publisher:: Gaim
Homepage:: http://www.pidgin.im
MD5 Checksum:: 3E0B42CC8848AEA41CD8C601AE619CCF

# General:
- Fix the exceptions in purple-remote on Python 2.6+. (Ari Pollak)

# Pidgin:
- When a conversation has reached the maximum limit on the number of smileys, display the text representation of the smiley properly when it contains HTML-escapable characters (e.g. "<3" was previously displayed as "<3").
- Drop dependency on GdkGC and use Cairo instead.
- New UI hack to assist in first-time setup of Facebook accounts with icon from Jakub Szypulka.
- Don't hide the buddy list if there is no notification area in which to put the icon.

# libpurple:
- Fix multipart parsing when '=' is included in the boundary for purple_mime_document_parse. (Jakub Adam)

# AIM and ICQ:
- Buddies who unset their status message will now be correctly shown without a message in your buddy list.

# Gadu-Gadu:
- Updated our bundled libgadu and minimum requirement for external libgadu to 1.9.0.

# MSN:
- Stop showing ourselves in the list of endpoints that can be disconnected.
- Allow full-size display names, by not escaping (most) non-English characters.
- Fix receiving messages from users on Yahoo and other federated services.
- Correctly remove old endpoints from the list when they sign out.
- Add option to disable connections from multiple locations.
- Correctly update your own display name in the buddy list.
- Correctly show ourselves as offline in the buddy list when going invisible.
- Correctly update your own icon in the buddy list.
- Remove struct packing for better portability.

# XMPP:
- Terminate Jingle sessions with unsupported content types.