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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