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A first look at Gaim 2.0 (Linux.com)
Linux.com reviews
Gaim 2.0. "The Gaim 2.0 release is nearing its home stretch. The
Gaim team released beta4 last week, with a number of new features and UI
improvements. Gaim 2.0 is shaping up as a net improvement over Gaim 1.5,
though some features have not changed for the better, and voice support for
Google Talk is still missing in action."
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A first look at Gaim 2.0 (Linux.com) Posted Oct 25, 2006 12:33 UTC (Wed) by tnoo (subscriber, #20427) [Link] Instead of "Gaim 2.0 is shaping up as a net improvement over Gaim 1.5",the headline should tell me what Gaim is.
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A first look at Gaim 2.0 (Linux.com) Posted Oct 25, 2006 20:55 UTC (Wed) by arcticwolf (guest, #8341) [Link] I've been running the 2.0 (beta) branch for a while now, and recently installed the latest version (beta4), but while it all looks nice and shiny, I've got to admit I'm a bit disappointed in the state of some features - particularly, file transfers and direct connects (the latter on AIM - I'm not sure if other protocols have similar functionality).
Both these things have gradually worsened over time; in 0.59.6 (yes, that was a LONG time ago!), they worked just fine, but then, things started going downhill, and now in 2.0beta4, the last remaining protocol that had working file transfers (IRC) also threw the towel.
This is definitely annoying, and to be honest, when I think back to the 0.59.x days, I wonder what GAIM has actually *gained* since then, too. Sure, there's a handful of new protocols, and of course, the existing ones have been kept up to date to cope with unexpected protocol changes and the ensuing breakage, too, but I sometimes wonder all that the past four or five years of development have brought is a few new protocols and the breaking of basic features. If yes, it reflects rather poorly on the GAIM team, I'm afraid.
A first look at Gaim 2.0 (Linux.com) Posted Oct 26, 2006 12:30 UTC (Thu) by jospoortvliet (subscriber, #33164) [Link] funny to see how happy he is with the plugin which shows when someoneopens a chatwindow with you... this has been in Kopete for ages, and most ppl indeed where a bit surprised when you started talking to them before they said anything because you saw them opening a chatwindow and start typing to you ;-)
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