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Gaim - 2.0.0 beta 3.1

multi-protocol instant messaging client

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Version 2.0.0 beta 3.1:	(2.0)
Selected Version:	2.0.0 beta 3.1
Release Date:	2006-08-21
License:	Beta
Downloads (version 2.0.0 beta 3.1):	455
Downloads (all versions):	10,855

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Product Description:

Gaim is a multi-protocol instant messaging (IM) client for Linux, BSD, MacOS X, and Windows. It is compatible with AIM and ICQ (Oscar protocol), MSN Messenger, Yahoo!, IRC, Jabber, Gadu-Gadu, SILC, GroupWise Messenger, and Zephyr networks.

Gaim users can log in to multiple accounts on multiple IM networks simultaneously. This means that you can be chatting with friends on AOL Instant Messenger, talking to a friend on Yahoo Messenger, and sitting in an IRC channel all at the same time.

Gaim supports many features of the various networks, such as file transfer, away messages, typing notification, and MSN window closing notification. It also goes beyond that and provides many unique features. A few popular features are Buddy Pounces, which give the ability to notify you, send a message, play a sound, or run a program when a specific buddy goes away, signs online, or returns from idle; and plugins, consisting of text replacement, a buddy ticker, extended message notification, iconify on away, spell checking, tabbed conversations, and more.

Operating System Requirements:

This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:

Windows XP
Windows 2003
Windows 2000
Windows NT
Windows 98

Additional Requirements:

Windows 98/ME/NT/2000/XP/2003

Feedback Summary:

Version 2.0.0 beta 3.1:
Overall Rating:	(2.0)	Features:	(5.0)	Support:	(5.0)
Ease of Use:	(5.0)	Quality / Stability:	(1.0)	Price:	(5.0)

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Gaim is not worth the trouble - Version: 2.0.0 beta 3.1, 9/11/2006 09:36PM PST

skralljt

I have been using Gaim successfully for years now, and still use it on the Linux platform. Unfortunately, gtk's support for windows is not very good and due to some complicated bug in the gtk (some dll libraries shared by apps ported to windows from a linux environment called gnome) the Gaim development team has not been producing releases that use the newer gtk. Since I also use "the gimp" image editor, as well as the gourmet recipe manager, I must keep the gtk updated. That is why, after lots of trying to get them all to work together, I am abandoning gaim for windows. Even the portable version of gaim doesn't work with gtk 2.8 installed on my system. I am moving to the miranda im program, though I don't like the interface as much. I hope that some day the gtk for windows gets fixed!