On 4/10/2013 6:32 PM, James Harper wrote: > What chat program should I be using these days to ensure maximum > cross-compatibility? I suspect there isn't an answer. > > It used to be that I would use a jabber based chat client and I could talk to > google (xmpp), msn (via a bridge), and anyone else running XMPP based > services. Then MSN went to something incompatible and stupid (Skype?), and > now google have gone to hangouts which is not XMPP, and I'm left with > connectivity to the remaining few people still using the old google chat > client. I've recently been using Pidgin (both Win & Linux), Kopete and Telepathy (KDE's Ktp?) for communicating with people on Google chat/hangouts, MSN (Windows Live I think it is actually) and ICQ with no issues (except for MSN if I'm @ work.. that's blocked somehow). All 3 clients on a mix of Fedora, Gentoo & Kubuntu desktops. Works fine for me.
hth. cheers, - Brendon _______________________________________________ luv-main mailing list [email protected] http://lists.luv.asn.au/listinfo/luv-main
