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[Virtueofselfishness]

whats better then empathy?
or what do you guys mostly use

i like empathy but it doesant let me video chat or audio chat
or send stuff its not letting me click on those specific things

is there something im missing?

[Darkness Des]

I use Empathy and Skype. That's all I need.

[Deiz]

Pidgin is the most widely-used IM client on the *nix platform.

It has video and audio chat support, though it's presently only functional for XMPP/Google Talk. The framework used intends to support the audio/video chat functionality of the MSN, Yahoo, etc. protocols in future.

[Virtueofselfishness]

Pidgin is the most widely-used IM client on the *nix platform.

It has video and audio chat support, though it's presently only functional for XMPP/Google Talk. The framework used intends to support the audio/video chat functionality of the MSN, Yahoo, etc. protocols in future.


so pidgin takes the cake?

does it support aim's audio and video?

an also what about file sharing?

[Deiz]

so pidgin takes the cake?

does it support aim's audio and video?

an also what about file sharing?

No, just XMPP/Google Talk. For AIM/Yahoo/MSN video and audio chat, I think you're out of luck on Linux at present.

Pidgin (and Empathy, likely) supports file transfers on all major protocols.

For the time being, if you need video and audio, I suggest you install Skype and get your friends to start using it.

[BlazeFire247]

Pidgin suits me fine, but since I also use Hotmail, I use Emesene. I use Pidgin mostly though, because it disables chat history. I haven't found out how to do that in Emesene yet.