On Wed, 2004-01-21 at 17:49, Darrell Esau wrote: > It's probably going to be largly opinionated, but you definitely want to take > a look at gaim (http://gaim.sourceforge.net) and kopete > (http://kopete.kde.org/). Each of these are multi-purpose instant messengers > with all the bells and whistles (with the option to turn them off). > > Gaim is a gtk-based app which integrates nicely with GNOME, kopete is a > QT/KDE-based app which integrated nicely with KDE. > Gain is indeed very good - or was :( Since the updrade of something recently it refuses to talk to Yahoo. I've now got 0.75, but whenever I try to connect a Yahoo account I get an error "xxxx has been disconnected. Unable to read" I've looked on the gaim website but all that tells me is that yahoo now works with version 0.75. All I can report is "It doesn't" JDL