Thinking of dropping MSN Messenger

WishMaster · Post by **WishMaster** » Thu Oct 05, 2006 6:04 pm

> but it IS AVAILABLE as a downloadable plugin
AFAIK the plugin is delivered with the commercial version and doesn't work with the free one.

> never hear of Kopete so I'll have to give it a try
Look here for the best IM tool ever: http://kopete.kde.org/

Psychophanta · Post by **Psychophanta** » Thu Oct 05, 2006 6:47 pm

GeoTrail wrote:I hate talking to people on Messenger and having half or more of the text replaced by stupid icons and animated pictures leaving me to try to decode what the h*ll they are trying to say.

The beauty of Microsoft Beast

GeoTrail wrote:I'm gonna uninstall MSN Messenger today after I have told my friends on MSN, if they wanna keep talking with me, they have to install Google Talk too

*And suddenly there was silence in Geo's living room*

hehe, that's why i voted NO !

When i knew internet i knew ICQ, and i missed it when fashion went from ICQ to MSN messenger. So i don't want to cry again, i am in use with msn Messenger and i don't want to miss it.

thamarok · Post by **thamarok** » Thu Oct 05, 2006 7:08 pm

You can always use a multi-protocol Instant Messenger like GAIM to use ICQ and MSN, but I don't think that your friends use ICQ anymore

I came from IRC and I remember those good old days when I and my friends exchanged data and chatted together in our private server, that was very cool

But unfortunately all my friends use MSN Messenger right now, it's just good that I have Kopete, so I can still talk to them :roll:

Fangbeast · Post by **Fangbeast** » Fri Oct 06, 2006 12:57 am

WishMaster wrote:> but it IS AVAILABLE as a downloadable plugin
AFAIK the plugin is delivered with the commercial version and doesn't work with the free one.

> never hear of Kopete so I'll have to give it a try
Look here for the best IM tool ever: http://kopete.kde.org/

The downloadable plugin always worked here for the free version I used initially and I remember a jabber admin originally complaining to me that trillian's implementation left a lot to be desired. When I unpacked my commercial version, there was no jabber plugin so I downloaded it and it had been upgraded so I never tried the free version again.

I might be wrong but I seem to have seen a gtalk plugin (that's jabber protocol isn't it?) somewhere that might work.

GeoTrail · Post by **GeoTrail** » Fri Oct 06, 2006 1:11 am

Yeah, it uses Jabber/XMPP protocol.

Intrigued · Post by **Intrigued** » Fri Oct 06, 2006 1:25 am

Check out PalTalk if you have not. It has some great video if you pay for their top of the line version.

You can connect with several of the different, major chat programs out ther too.

Num3 · Post by **Num3** » Fri Oct 06, 2006 9:10 am

MIRANDA IM...

Dificult to configure, but it supports them all

Psychophanta · Post by **Psychophanta** » Fri Oct 06, 2006 9:55 am

WoW, that seems cool! And it is free!
Thank you for the report.

GeoTrail · Post by **GeoTrail** » Fri Oct 06, 2006 1:27 pm

I can't access www.miranda.com
Just get a server not found error.

Num3 · Post by **Num3** » Fri Oct 06, 2006 1:46 pm

GeoTrail wrote:I can't access www.miranda.com
Just get a server not found error.

http://www.miranda-im.org/

GeoTrail · Post by **GeoTrail** » Fri Oct 06, 2006 1:53 pm

Oh

just searched for miranda and the .com url was the first hit

Nik · Post by **Nik** » Fri Oct 06, 2006 5:14 pm

Well as I'm now on Mac OS X most of the time I use Adium X as most of my friends use ICQ, when using my Linux Laptop I use GAIM, and in the unlikely case I have to use Windows I stick with the original Clients but running both ICQ and MSN at the same time.
(Hate to use my Windows Box but I sometimes still need to boot it for example when using software I need for school)

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