Messaging App of the Year

SkyEye · 01-31-2009, 04:09 PM

Should've made the category an Open Source one and left out Skype, like in Games category. IMHO

decodedthought · 02-03-2009, 08:29 AM

empathy not in the list

but then use kopete tooo

americancaesar · 02-03-2009, 01:29 PM

I use spark. It is not the most lightweight client but it does a good job.

btw... if you are looking for an opensource IM server to implement openfire has served me pretty well.

opensuse4life · 02-03-2009, 01:53 PM

For a KDE freak and an IRC junkie, what other then konversation?

Isn't kmess a now defunct kde frontend for the MESS video game emmulator?

hilltop_yodeler · 02-03-2009, 02:04 PM

If you are listing IRC and IM clients here, then why not also add Twitter clients? It would be better to have multiple categories here; one for IRC client and one for IM client. I know that some of the IM clients also have IRC capabilities, but this poll doesn't really give users the opportunity to specify which tool they use for various types of communication. My IM client is not the same as my IRC client. Personally, I use Pidgin for IM and IRSSI for IRC. Thanks!

michalspd · 02-03-2009, 03:32 PM

Kadu & Skype

raju.mopidevi · 02-03-2009, 06:48 PM

pidgin is very nice one, we can log with any account like AIM, gmail,ICQ,IRC,MSN,skype,yahoo etc etc.

technosaurus · 02-03-2009, 07:20 PM

I was going to vote for Ayttm? Its not here but it is included as the default messaging app in a top 10 distro (Puppy)

voyvf · 02-03-2009, 08:30 PM

Pidgin and finch for IM. I use weechat for IRC, since BitchX doesn't appear to be actively developed.

Mogaba · 02-04-2009, 12:17 AM

I'd vote Kopete if there were no problems with proxy

mohit052 · 02-04-2009, 01:07 AM

why ?? because it does a little bit of everything , does not especialize in anything particularly for example its not as good as XChat for irc.. but it does do IRC

Now, If you are one one of those people that wants every thing todo with messaging in one single software.., then pidgin is the one that gets the closest..

theacerguy · 02-05-2009, 03:45 AM

amsn its better than kopete kde3 which is unusable and pidgin doesnt fully work and can i suggest adding kmess

jarl_bronisz · 02-10-2009, 04:49 AM

what about miranda?

antivirus · 02-10-2009, 10:38 AM

Pidgin is my choice.

deadeyes · 02-10-2009, 03:04 PM

kmess is missing