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Pidgin, Finch, and libpurple
Pidgin is a graphical IM program that lets you sign on to AIM, Jabber, MSN, Yahoo!, and other IM networks. It uses GTK+. It was formerly called Gaim.
Finch is a console-based IM program that lets you sign on to AIM, Jabber, MSN, Yahoo!, and other IM networks. It uses ncurses. It was formerly called Gaim-text.
libpurple is a library used for developing IM programs. See What is libpurple? for more information.
For Users
Frequently Asked Questions
- FAQ - Look here first!
- Using This Site
- Tips for Bug Reports - You must be logged in to submit bug reports!
- Get a Backtrace - Follow these directions to help us debug crashes.
- Using Pidgin
- Default Keyboard Shortcuts
- ConfigurationFiles - what is in your
.purple
directory
- Using Libpurple
- Using Finch
The Pidgin Community
- PidginCommunity
- Mailing Lists
- The Pidgin Philosophy - Why some things in Pidgin are the way they are
- Merchandise
- Spread Pidgin - User submitted "fanart" to help Pidgin become popular!
- Third-Party plugins - A page for plugin developers to list their plugins for users to see
For Developers
Google Summer of Code
- 2008 Projects
- SoC Discussions
- Project Ideas?
- Previous years:
Development Tools
Development Information
- TipsForPatchSubmissions
- TipsForTranslators
- Building Pidgin
- Development FAQ
- DesignGuidelines
- Building on Windows
- Version control:
- Plugins and scripting:
- The future:
- DeveloperPages