Kopete or Pidgin?

[Ryan Rix]

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Thanks and best regards,
Ryan Rix
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Hi,

Well folks, so far I like Kopete. :)

Except for one glaring (imo) issue: It can't connect (on a per account basis) 
via proxy, either HTTP or SOCKS.

And since i"m currently being blocked or some oddness via Microsoft 
(traceroute traces packets on 1863 all the way to msn servers, so they're 
denying me, not the ISP or sth), I can't connect at all to msn via kopete. 
I'm currently stuck using meebo just for msn, which bothers me quite a bit...

~Ryan


On Saturday 09 August 2008 01:18:35 pm Kurt Granroth 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