I started using pidgin from the time i started using ubuntu....Well everything started from a search to have gtalk on ubuntu.Why i use GTalk,well google did a great thing integrating orkut with gtalk all my friends on orkut automatically were added to gtalk and so always connected...
Well after reading certain blogs of how to install gtalk through wine and nearly doing but still didn't work ,i came to know about the application Pidgin(for Gnome) and Kopete(for KDE) as i had ubuntu i opted for pidgin and from then till now i have not used Gtalk again ya even on windows too.(PIDGIN IS THERE FOR WINDOWS TOO)
U might be wondering that how come i was looking for Gtalk and got that solved through a third party software not related in any way to google.Well pidgin uses the Jabber protocol to connect to Gtalk and other gateways to connect to yahoo and others messenger so yes only one client for every messenger. The list contains many like AIM,MSN,YAhoo,GTALK,MyspaceIM,IRC's and many more.
One problem with Gtalk and the yahoo messenger is that if you have two accounts on them and you want to login on both of them at one time,then you don't have any option to do that.But pidgin solves it,and believe me or not it is really a great feature any number of gmail account logined at a time.
But still pidgin doesn't support voice and video as in gtalk or ym...but i don't need it and have skype whose voice quality is best in all of them and is available for windows and linux.
So Pidgin is a a very usefull im clien and would be one of the first software which i will install if i set up a new machine agian.
You can download the pidgin from here...
http://www.pidgin.im/
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