Re: pidgin

[Rich Healey <healey.rich@gmail.com>]

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Daniel Dalton wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> It looks like what I want, however, I am vission impaired, and
> unfortunately tk (is that what the tool kit is called I'm not a
> programmer), won't support braille.
> 
> I ended up getting my issue sorted out, but thanks for the suggestion,
> perhaps one day when it is accessible I might give it ago.
> 
> Have a good one
> 
> Daniel
> 
> 
> On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 03:14:06PM -0800, Angus Auld wrote:
>> I used to use pidgin, when it was called gaim, but I have since started using aMSN. I am uncertain as to whether pidgin has off-line messaging support, but I do know that aMSN does. It is a very feature rich program, and it works well. It is only MSN capable however, so if you need the other protocols that pidgin supports, aMSN won't fit your bill. Kopete is also a nice program (if you use KDE), but is not off-line message capable to my knowledge.
>>
>> Regards.
>>
>> -- 
>> Angus
>>
>> "All churches, whether Jewish, Christian, or Muslim, appear 
>> to me no other than human inventions, setup to terrify and 
>> enslave mankind - and to monopolize power and profit."
>> -- 
>> Thomas Paine (1737-1809)
>>
>> ######Laptop powered by Linux######
>> ######Reg. Linux User #278931######
>>
>>
>> --- On Sun, 12/14/08, Frank Lanitz <frank@frank.uvena.de> wrote:
>>
>>> From: Frank Lanitz <frank@frank.uvena.de>
>>> Subject: Re: pidgin
>>> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
>>> Date: Sunday, December 14, 2008, 9:45 PM
>>> Hi Daniel, 
>>>
>>> On Mon, 15 Dec 2008 08:18:49 +1100
>>> Daniel Dalton <d.dalton@iinet.net.au> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Can someone please tell me how to enable msn offline
>>> messages support
>>>> in pidgin. So I can read my msn offline messages in
>>> pidgin? What
>>>> version of pidgin do I need, and what is the best way
>>> to get this
>>>> version on debian? is there anything else I must do on
>>> debian to
>>>> enable offline messages?
>>>>
>>>> I tried the pidgin support list, but didn't get
>>> much help.
>>>
>>> I guess you should be a bit more patient and wait for a
>>> proper answer
>>> at pidgin mailing list. From my best knowledge, Pidgin is
>>> not
>>> supporting sending offline message for MSN in current
>>> status (but
>>> maybe I'm wrong). But there will be no better
>>> information than on
>>> their list ... in special when you are building your own
>>> binary as
>>> you mentioned over there ;) 
>>>
>>> Cheers, 
>>> Frank 
aMSN is now using ETK as far as I know.
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