Coexist with vanilla Pidgin?
Hi,
I haven't used IM/Pidgin for more than a year (It was still called gaim
back then), and when I installed it two weeks ago I searched and
searched on how to resize that text box ... I wasn't able to and
shrugged my shoulders, "whatever, must be doing something wrong, I'll
check later".
Well, it appears it wasn't me ... I find the Pidgin developers
attitude very odd, "user-centered design" is obviously not in their
dictionary (according to http://www.useit.com/alertbox/maturity.html
they would be stage 1 or 2).
It's good to see that a couple of more sensible people started this
project, keep up the good work!
Ehm, anyway, now that I've sucked up to you I have a question.
I thought it would be nice to add FunPidgin to the FreeBSD ports
collection, but FunPidgin hasn't been "properly renamed", i.e. libpurple is
still called libpurple and installs to the same location as the "real"
libpurple stuff, the same applies to all the Pidgin and Finch stuff.
Obviously, this is not ideal, so I'm wondering if there are plans in
the near future to properly rename the project so that it can coexist
with Pidgin? I suppose I could do this myself, but I don't want to
reinvent the wheel, and I'm also unsure what name to give to libpurple
and finch (libfunpurple? funfinch?).
So, will FunPidgin be able to coexist with Pidgin?
That is now done with the rebranded version carrier in the SVN (and about to become the next release). Only the GTK GUI has been changed and it can be installed alongside Pidgin. Libpurple and Finch are exactly the same.
Ok, I see it's going to be renamed to carrier ... Thanks.
I saw some commit messages for libpurple ... So this was just stuff ported from the pidgin project I assume?
The commit messages were actually patches we tried out, but we decided not to maintain them in the long run because there was no garuntee that plugins would keep working and no garuntee that future versions of libpurple would remain compatible with them. If I understood the patches line by line I'd probably be able to modify them as needed, but a lot of them were Greek to me. For now I'm sticking to the GTK stuff which I do understand, more or less.
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