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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