Thank you, you made me shit my pants!And it felt g...

2008-10-14T13:36:00.000-07:00

Thank you, you made me shit my pants!

And it felt good!

-Ibod Catooga

I'm ready to bail on Pidgin as well.There are so m...

2008-05-28T06:10:00.000-07:00

I'm ready to bail on Pidgin as well.

There are so many little things that piss me off about Pidgin. When I've gone searching for answers, I've run into the same responses from the developers: "Not our fault!" Being a software developer by trade, that answer doesn't hold any water with my users.

One example: just about every IM-client I've ever used allows you to use Enter, or Ctrl-Enter to send a message. (I think ctrl-enter requires a bit more conscious effort to send a message, thereby protecting me from possibly fat-fingering. It gives me a moment of pause before sending a message.) Went looking for an answer to why Pidgin doesn't have such an option, I got something along the lines of "...we don't like it that way, so we're not coding it that way." There was also some half-assed excuse why it shouldn't be that way (ie: this bug-ticket on developer.pidgin.im -- see comment #3 for asshole-developer-comment) and then a really ass-backwards way to get ctrl-enter to work via GTK config files.

I'm sorry, what? Why? Screw you Pidgin!

One more thing: Their updater (under Windows) sucks! We have a customized emoticon pack for the office. We copy it out where Pidgin will find it and use it. Every time we get an update to Pidgin, the updater destroys the current installation entirely, wiping out our emots.

...I'm really ready to switch to something else. Got any good suggestions?

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