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Pidgin 2.6 adds audio/video support for Gtalk
Pidgin, a popular, crossplatform, multi-protocol chat app, just got an important update to version 2.6. It's important because this is the first time Pidgin has supported audio or video chat over Google Talk. Even my favorite chat client for the Mac, Adium, doesn't yet support those features. Unfortunately, audio and video chats don't yet work in the Windows version of Pidgin, but they should be available soon.The other very important update better (read: actually working) file transfers on Yahoo! and Google Talk. There's also some preliminary theme support, for those of you who enjoy building themes, but it's that feature is too new to have a selection of themes to choose from.
If you're not comfortable compiling an app, you can wait on Pidgin for a little while until the pre-compiled native apps show up. Speaking of native apps, Pidgin doesn't look bad on a Mac, per se, but it can't compete on looks against a Mac-like app like Adium.
[via Lifehacker]
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Subscribe to commentsDagurAug 19th 2009 11:35AM
As far as I can tell it's not out for Windows yet.
rcarmAug 19th 2009 11:41AM
The pre-compiled binaries for windows aren't out yet but you can compile it from source.
DaphAug 19th 2009 12:34PM
This awesome. Can't wait for some .debs
Also, you should see this on your Mac fairly soon as adium uses the same library (libpurple) that pidgin uses to do all its protocol stuff.
xyzzyzorkAug 19th 2009 8:46PM
Getdeb.net has 2.6.1 up... They had 2.6.0 before this article was even posted. :)
illogic17Aug 19th 2009 1:12PM
2.6.1 Available for Windows at pidgin.im
iofthestormAug 19th 2009 2:14PM
By the way, Adium uses libpurple, and the voice/video support was added to libpurple, so I would expect the next release of Adium to support voice/video as well, although they'll have to do a little more work I guess, but I'm pretty sure they'll get it done. Meh, Adium is one of a few programs from the Mac that I really envy, and I have to say that the Pidgin developers should take some tips from the Adium devs.
motangAug 19th 2009 2:48PM
Very good news indeed!
xyzzyzorkAug 19th 2009 8:45PM
2.6.1 for Linux is up with the required libraries...
http://www.getdeb.net/search.php?keywords=pidgin