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m joined January 13, 2008 (logged-in March 11, 2020) <beez> Bitching where bitching is due -- and often where it is not.
m
posted November 05, 2009
I've yet to see anything approaching a decent
XMPP (
Jabber) client that is based around
Pidgin's (formerly
Gaim)
libPurple. This includes, most notably, the
Mac OSX client
Adium.
None of these clients correctly supports the standard message type, instead
treating all XMPP messages as chats.
Admittedly, they have made strides recently, with Pidgin finally supporting
resources in a half-way reasonable way. However, there is still the case of the
phantom resource where a Pidgin chat dialog will confuse the actual resource that it is talking to and causing a disruption in dialog.