Instant Messaging

Another thing that I've noticed is that there are only packages for Red
Hat and Debian. No Mandrake, Slackware or SuSE rpms, or even a generic
tarball. At least there is the web-based client, though.

On Thu, 2003-09-25 at 19:13, David wrote:
> On Thu, 25 Sep 2003, Craig Brooksby wrote:
>
> > Follow up to my original msg: My coworkers are Yahoo IM users, so I
> > stopped struggling with Gaim and downloaded the Yahoo IM client rpm for
> > RH9. Works spiffy. Very thoughtful of Yahoo! to provide pre-built
> > downloads for the Linux community! -- Craig
>
> unfortunately, the ymessenger client sucks. granted, a sucky client is
> better than none, but it still sucks.
>
> -no tabbed windows
> -gtk1 based
> -no file transfer
> -no webcam support
> -fonts are horrible
> -no notification applet
> -ads
>
> should I go on? I wish I was more of a developer so I could help with the
> gaim effort.
>
> David