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[that_punk_guy]

I'm asking here because you guys understand the need for software that isn't crap! :-D

I have friends that use AIM, MSN and Yahoo. Besides the fact that the only one of these I would dream of running on my machine is the Yahoo! IM, having three messangers running at once is ridiculous, so I looked for an inter-compatible client. GAIM was my first stop. That has to be the most godawful, buggy program I've used in a while.

If GAIM actually worked like it's supposed to, it'd be perfect. But it doesn't.

Now a Jabber client (and there are many) will do what I want, via gateways and so on. But I don't particularly like the idea of uploading the password to my accounts onto a third party server. Am I being unnecessarily paranoid?

Or does anyone know of an alternative to GAIM that doesn't crash, pretend to save files but never quite manage, screw up my buddy list, etc?

:-?

[odin]

Well...there's Trillian. But the GUI is utterly {bleep}e of that prog. I still use it though.

[Vincent]

odin wrote:
Well...there's Trillian. But the GUI is utterly {bleep}e of that prog. I still use it though.

It's not that bad :-P

I used to use Trillian all the time for MSN and IRC, but unfortunately haven't had the time to do that recently :-(

[Karlos]

TrillianPro 2.0 is pretty nice. GUI still sucks (asthetically that is, functionality is fine).

Plenty of skins available however (not that I bothered)

[that_punk_guy]

Cheers dudes :-)

Right now I'm deciding between Trillian and Miranda.

I did know about Trillian, but someone had told me it had spyware, turns out that was FUD. Trillian doesn't look too bad if you skin it, although I wish there wasn't a seperate group for offline buddies. Seems a bit counter-intuitive.

Miranda's a strange one.

(Yes, she is ;-))

[NightShade737]

Whats more stupid about trillian is you have to turn the Offline buddies display on to move ANY of the contacts anywhere else. WTF is that all about? If you turn on Offline buddies and have anywhere near 100 contacts then it is going to take you ages to find the damn person again.

[that_punk_guy]

Heh... (un)fortunately for me, I have about 3 contacts.

:-D :-(

[Argo]

Hmm, I don't have that problem. My offline list all listed alphabetically. Recently logged off are at the bottom of the offline list. That's just the way it was after install. Oh, yeah. Skin it. It helps. Not to mention check out the plugins. I use it for AIM, ICQ, IRC, MSN, Yahoo. I have pluggins for Weather, News, Spell Checker. Weather is nice. Gives you the Weather of various locations you choose. Also, if you have entered in zip codes for your contacts, when you move the pointer over a contact the weather for their area shows in their info. News is just an RSS feed reader. It also pops up little boxes next to the main Trillian window when there is new news. I find that handy. Spell Checker, well that's kinda self explainitory.