Comments on: Digsby and Pidgin /2008/04/29/digsby-and-pidgin Cars, Computers, and trying new things Sun, 14 Nov 2010 00:15:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: anonymous /2008/04/29/digsby-and-pidgin/comment-page-1#comment-12135 anonymous Sun, 18 Apr 2010 08:24:09 +0000 /?p=155#comment-12135 Digsby should be open source, that's the only reason I use pidgin over it. Digsby should be open source, that’s the only reason I use pidgin over it.

]]> By: Ravi /2008/04/29/digsby-and-pidgin/comment-page-1#comment-11687 Ravi Thu, 28 May 2009 15:21:54 +0000 /?p=155#comment-11687 Fair enough. I see one more downside in Pidgin, which I feel important plus in Pidgin and I personally find it very useful. That is this grouping the contacts based on accounts (right now it supports grouping them based on service only). If you have more than one account in any service, in the Main Window, you find it very difficult to manage them. The important plus in Digsby that I found is that you can reply from any of your accounts in a chat conversation. That is, if you have 2 yahoo accounts, you can choose to answer from either account during a chat. Though, this feature is a bit annoying sometimes. We inadvertently select an account that we dont intend to. May be an on/off check (account/service wise) in the preferences would do. Fair enough. I see one more downside in Pidgin, which I feel important plus in Pidgin and I personally find it very useful. That is this grouping the contacts based on accounts (right now it supports grouping them based on service only). If you have more than one account in any service, in the Main Window, you find it very difficult to manage them.

The important plus in Digsby that I found is that you can reply from any of your accounts in a chat conversation. That is, if you have 2 yahoo accounts, you can choose to answer from either account during a chat. Though, this feature is a bit annoying sometimes. We inadvertently select an account that we dont intend to. May be an on/off check (account/service wise) in the preferences would do.

]]> By: WarByte /2008/04/29/digsby-and-pidgin/comment-page-1#comment-11578 WarByte Wed, 25 Mar 2009 04:05:12 +0000 /?p=155#comment-11578 Even though i already read the comments about it not being based on pidgin, i must admit the same idea set on my mind as soon as i saw the screenshots. Looks promising, looking forward to using it once it is out of beta. Even though i already read the comments about it not being based on pidgin, i must admit the same idea set on my mind as soon as i saw the screenshots. Looks promising, looking forward to using it once it is out of beta.

]]> By: Jeffrey /2008/04/29/digsby-and-pidgin/comment-page-1#comment-11074 Jeffrey Thu, 01 May 2008 02:13:19 +0000 /?p=155#comment-11074 Very good comparison! Their were some incorrect facts that I would like to clarify. Digsby is actually not based on Pidgin at all, we do not use libpurple at all its all home grown. Another note is that although your accounts and preferences are synchronized to our servers your chat logs are not. As for Yahoo Mail, their will be an update very soon that fixes the Yahoo Classic problem if you use Yahoo Mail Beta it will take this into consideration. We appreciate your feedback and will definitely take it into consideration in future builds. Very good comparison! Their were some incorrect facts that I would like to clarify. Digsby is actually not based on Pidgin at all, we do not use libpurple at all its all home grown. Another note is that although your accounts and preferences are synchronized to our servers your chat logs are not. As for Yahoo Mail, their will be an update very soon that fixes the Yahoo Classic problem if you use Yahoo Mail Beta it will take this into consideration.

We appreciate your feedback and will definitely take it into consideration in future builds.

]]> By: mike /2008/04/29/digsby-and-pidgin/comment-page-1#comment-11073 mike Wed, 30 Apr 2008 14:36:25 +0000 /?p=155#comment-11073 Actually, Digsby isn't based on Pidgin. Digsby is closed source and all of our protocol implementations have been developed in-house (with the exception of IMAP and POP for email, which are from open source, non-GPL libraries). Actually, Digsby isn’t based on Pidgin. Digsby is closed source and all of our protocol implementations have been developed in-house (with the exception of IMAP and POP for email, which are from open source, non-GPL libraries).

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