Talk:Pidgin (software)

Related software/libpurple

I fail to see the need of this section now; it's becoming a spot of blatant advertising for various clients and people revert to it for no reason? Just what is so special about a list of Pidgin-based clients? There's an IM software list for Pete's sake! 75.79.43.178 (talk) 02:16, 28 February 2009 (UTC)

Libpurple also redirects here; Pidgin is the source of libpurple, so it seems like linking to other software that is based on pidgin and/or uses libpurple seems like relevant to the topic at hand. Perhaps libpurple should be separated out? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.154.241.243 (talk) 08:45, 18 March 2009 (UTC)

I think that you'd struggle to find enough information about libpurple to make a separate article out of it. As far as I'm aware, Pidgin (and Adium) are the most popular implementations of libpurple (with Pidgin being the most prominent open-source implementation). ~~ [ジャム]^[t - c] 09:00, 18 March 2009 (UTC)

A "software based on libpurple" category/list would be helpful to permanently get rid of this. HuGo_87 (talk) 08:51, 20 May 2009 (UTC)

Why was reference to Empathy's Voice and Video capabilities removed? 124.168.223.77 (talk) 15:06, 18 August 2009 (UTC)

"Funpidgin" currently redirects to this article, however it is not mentioned. If there's an explicit redirect, then i asume it is relevant enough to be at least mentioned.Thx. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 190.164.56.5 (talk) 12:25, 8 December 2009 (UTC)

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 – "Other notable software based on libpurple" section retained with sourced entries; unsourced/dead entries removed.

Screenshot

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 – Image has been properly centered and licensing issues solved.

can someone explain why this screenshot is not centered and aligned to the left ? I can't seem to figure it out. furthermore, if someone would fix this, even better :) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Hugo 87 (talk • contribs) 07:49, 20 May 2009 (UTC)

The reason it is off center is a bot keeps adding that {{puic}} template (which doesn't work in Infoboxes anyway) due to Wikipedia:Possibly unfree files/2009 May 8#File:Pidgin screenshot.png. There isn't any point in removing the template because the bot will just automatically re-add it again. Tothwolf (talk) 10:33, 24 May 2009 (UTC)

Oh, thank. I've managed to center it for the time being anyway. A replacement SHOULD be found, though the dispute on whether it is or not free is still not finished. HuGo_87 (talk) 13:52, 24 May 2009 (UTC)

No, that image fine. Someone just got carried away in tagging images (again). Tothwolf (talk) 14:19, 24 May 2009 (UTC)

New question
I have Pidgin 2.7.3 in Debian Squeeze. My Buddy List is similar to the screen shot here except that it has "Family" and "Friends" whereas I see "Friends" and "Buddies". Isn't a more recent screen shot warranted? Regards, ... PeterEasthope (talk) 23:57, 27 November 2011 (UTC)

Plaintext Passwords section

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 – Article updated: Pidgin 3.0 will support KWallet, GNOME Keyring, macOS Keychain, and Windows Credential API for password storage.

reverted a section talking about the Summer of Code 2008 project to add integration with GNOME Keyring, KWallet, etc. I don't feel comfortable editing the page (as I'm involved in the project), but that SoC was completed successfully, it's just that the code has not yet been merged into Pidgin (it is slated to go into 3.0.0, because due to the way it works, it effectively needs to change ABI).
DarkRain42 (talk) 20:44, 31 July 2009 (UTC)

Evening. The plaintext passwords criticism doesn't quite match the source cited. In particular, the link points out that only the user has read access to that file. And anyway, it's getting integrated with desktop keyrings. I'm way too tired to make changes in a way that won't end up immediately undone, can someone look after this for me please? 82.3.192.241 (talk) 23:57, 7 December 2011 (UTC)

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