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5 stars
Version: Pidgin 2.4.3
"I'm in love"
Pros: Extremely light weight, and does everything the bloated IM clients like AIM are just beginning to catch onto. Everyone's icon and status are in the buddy list (Buddies -> Show details), as is the ability to set your status and type status message right in the buddy list window. Buddy pounces allow me to know when my long distance girlfriend signs on AIM by playing a sound. I play a lot of video games, and you can set pidgin to only play a sound when you receive an IM in a conversation window that is out of focus.
Pidgin also can removes all of the crazy fonts and colors from incoming messages of idiots who set AIM to use them, or you can keep seeing them in their formats if you really want to. Buddy aliasing is great, though the other clients have caught onto that by now. TABBED IMS also rock, but the jerks at AIM have copied that too.
But the truth remains that AIM is an ugly program targeted at teenage girls, hogs memory, and still displays advertisements that nobody wants to see.
Cons: This is not a complaint specifically about the software, but I have a logitech G15 keyboard with an LCD display and Pidgin is the only IM client that does not yet have a plugin written for it for this keyboard. SOMEBODY PLEASE WRITE ONE FOR ME :)
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