Kopete or Pidgin?

[Patrick C]

What about Pidgin-Encryption? I'm not sure what that uses but it's another
encryption plugin for Pidgin.

http://pidgin-encrypt.sourceforge.net/
On Sat, Aug 9, 2008 at 1:18 PM, Kurt Granroth <
kurt+plug-discuss at granroth.com <kurt%2Bplug-discuss at granroth.com>> wrote:

> They are both very good IM clients with more features than any reasonable
> person could use.  They also have a remarkably similar feature set.
>
> I've used both pretty extensively but keep coming back to Kopete.  Why?
>  Because for my purposes, each has one advantage over the other:
>
> o Pidgin handles jabber MUC (conference) rooms much better than Kopete.
>  You cannot 'invite' anybody to a MUC in Kopete, for instance
>
> o Kopete can handle PGP/GPG encrypted messages.  Pidgin cannot
>
> It's the GPG point that seals the deal for me.  I use GPG via IM
> extensively and am not going to go without it.  Yes, I could OTR (supported
> by Pidgin) but that seems a bit too clunky.
>
> Other than that... it's sort of a tossup.
>
>
> Ryan Rix wrote:
>
>> Hi group,
>>
>> I have been a long time user and fan of Pidgin, the multi protocol IM
>> client formerly known as Gaim... However, I found Kopete in Debian's apt
>> repositories just now and it piqued my interest. Has anyone used both and
>> has an opinion on which is better?
>>
>> On the one hand I don't want to lose any of the features I've grown to
>> love in KDE, but on the other hand, I'd like the tight integration with KDE
>> that kopete provides (for example showing people's online status in
>> KaddressBook, among others)
>>
>> Best,
>> Ryan Rix
>>
>
>
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