I’ve just noticed that Pidgin is even more thoroughly integrated into the GNOME desktop in Jaunty Jackelope. Now, every time one of your buddies comes online, in addition to the standard sound alert, you get a prominent notification dropping down from your system tray. This is really helpful if you have a lot of buddies on different services and don’t want your Buddy List window to take up the entire height of your screen.
I’ve also noticed that MySpace’s new ripoff of Facebook’s online chat feature doesn’t get along well with Pidgin. The account still works correctly within Pidgin. The problem is that, if you sign on to MySpace IM on MySpace, it disables the account in Pidgin. This wouldn’t be a big deal if not for the fact that you sign on to MySpace IM by clicking the Online Friends button at the bottom of the web page. This makes it easy for one errant mouse click to leave you logged off of your account after you leave MySpace.
EDIT: And the desktop integration is even better than I thought. If you’re having a conversation, you get notifications of the other person’s replies, complete with the text of the IM.
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