[geeks] favorite im client?

[velociraptor]

On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 1:15 PM, Joshua Boyd <jdboyd at jdboyd.net> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 04:09:15PM -0500, Phil Stracchino wrote:
>> Sandwich Maker wrote:
>> > anyone have one to recommend?  i'm setting up a laptop for my gf's son,
>> > and my sketchy recon so far suggests pidgin and/or trillian.
>>
>> You didn't specify OS.  But ... pidgin pretty much does it all.
>
> Pidgin seems to fall over for some GTalk users, such as myself.  From
> the boards and bug lists, it appears that I'm not the only one.
>
> The problem is that pidgin expects GTalk users to also be GMail users,
> while Gtalk really only requires a google account.  So, if your Gtalk
> user-ID is you at gmail.com, pidgin is fine, but if your Gtalk user-ID is
> you at example.com, then you are stuck.
>
> Anyway, on the pidgin bug tracker, such bugs are just closed without
> resolution.
>
> I made the mistake of not signing up for gmail promptly and now I can't
> seem to find a reasonable username.

OT, but, I recommend trying some things with "." in the username.  Most
people don't think to use this in an email address, and as a result, my
GMail account(s) with that character, get less spam (orders of magnitude
less).

=Nadine=