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Gaim Beta 3 released

Submitted by stro on Fri, 2006-03-31 18:45. GNOME IM
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Great day in the park, we've released Gaim 2.0.0 beta 3. You know the drill--you can find assorted builds on our sourceforge page. We'd like to note that none of the beta 3 RPMs include a Gadu-Gadu protocol plugin. So if you need Gadu-Gadu then you should stick with beta 2. And as my pappy always used to say: don't hitch your wagon to a stump if it has eyes. We never did know what he was talking about.

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Socks 5

Submitted by Anonymous George on Mon, 2006-04-03 04:37.

Looks promising! too bad socks5 proxies are no more working in this beta..

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build from the tarball

Submitted by segphault on Mon, 2006-04-03 19:38.

I built beta 3 from a tarball, and it compiled and installed the gadu-gadu protocol plug-in by default. Building from the tarball isn't really that much trouble for gaim if you already have a build environment all set up.

As far as support in the final release is concerned, if it's really that useful to enough users I'm sure that distributions will include it in their packages.

Plug-in

Submitted by lobais on Mon, 2006-04-03 10:29.

Isn't it still there... by plug-in?

beta 3 is a lot more stable

Submitted by segphault on Sat, 2006-04-01 21:54.

I've been using beta 3 since the tarballs hit the web, and I'm really pleased with it. It hasn't crashed on me at all, and they made a few decent interface improvements. For instance, away messages now appear next to the status text in the combobox rather than in a textbox below it. I still think the combobox is too big, and the window still has to be way too wide in order for all the menus to be visible. It's nice to see the Gaim developers making so much progress, I personally can't wait for the official release.

I'm still experimenting with dbus stuff, and I still haven't figured out how to iterate over buddy list nodes via dbus, but I have been able to do plenty of other things, like make my own notification system with python by connecting dbus gaim signals to libnotify.

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