[Leaplist] Re: Microsoft Suggest Linux Hotmail Users Use Outlook Express (long)

[Damien McKenna]

On Feb 4, 2008, at 11:03 AM, Jason Boxman wrote:
> Personally I've found Pidgin or whatever they're calling it today to  
> be unstable,

I've occasionally had stability issues, but it has generally been a  
few specific releases that were patched quickly.  I have, however,  
seen it become a major memory hog back in the v1.x days, though I  
haven't kept an eye on it since v2 so it might have improved.

> contain an inconsistent interface,

V2 is pretty good in this regard, what was the last release you tried?

> and integrate poorly with KDE.

Given that it is a gtk app this doesn't surprise me too much.  Has  
nobody done a KDE gui on top of libpidgin yet?

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