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gaim 2.0 Beta Mini Review

Posted by Admun  Tags: , ,
FC6 comes with gaim 2.0 beta4, which is a welcome upgrade.

There are many GUI and functional changes in gaim 2.0:
- All user account's status are consolidated into one, which can be set from buddy list window.
- Status are simplified into 4 main types: Available, Away, Invisiable, and Offline. They can be set to different sub-status like Be right back, Out for Lunch, and alike. You can even create your own sub-status as please.
- A interface is added to allow user to define his avator for all IM account.
- For MSN, it supports "friendly name". User can set to any name they like, just like the official MSN client for windows
- Icon rotation is now supported.
- Again for MSN, the latest version of the protocol seem to be supported now. It is evident that I can see those funny icon that substitude words.

Gaim chat window, with new functions

However, this new gaim wasn't without problem; 1) The most annoying one is gaim seem to be struck sometimes and unable to access the network interface when I first login and connecting from network manager. 2) VoIP is still missing. I am waiting for the day I can use it to call my friend on Google Talk. Even better, if I can chat on Yahoo Messenger with VoIP or MSN. smile

Comments

cheryl add in November 21 at 20:12:29

hey hi there i thought you might be really geeky so just wanna ask you a stupid question about gaim... i really would like it to start automatically when windows starts but it seems that there is no such an option unless i go back to older versions... am i missing out something from the preference or...???

btw... does gaim have any problem w/ icq i dunno my account is hacked or what it just keeps saying that i have incorrect password, which fundamentally i haven't changed my password and the whole thing went wrong in one day!

hope you're kind enough to answer me... =) thanks!

Admun add in November 21 at 23:17:02

Indeed, there is no such option. I am running gaim on FC6 in GNOME, I save the session with gaim running. So when it restores the seesion next time I login, gaim is started automatically.

I run gaim for ICQ/MSN/YM, they work alright to me. I would suggest to verified your ICQ account from windows.

Hope this answer your question.

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