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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 runs on Microsoft Windows and Unixes. It is written in C and uses GLib and 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 runs on Unixes. It uses GLib and 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
Help
- Frequently Asked Questions - 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
.purpledirectory
- 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
- Third-Party Smiley Themes - A page for smiley theme authors to list their smiley themes for users to see
For Developers
Some services have moved
Note that the monotone server has moved to mtn.pidgin.im. You should update your databases appropriately, with either mtn pull --set-default mtn.pidgin.im <pattern> or mtn set database default-server mtn.pidgin.im.
Google Summer of Code
- 2008 Projects
- SoC Discussions
- Project Ideas?
- Previous years:
Development Tools
Development Information
- Patches:
- TipsForTranslators
- Building Pidgin
- Development FAQ
- DesignGuidelines
- Building on Windows
- Version control:
- Plugins and scripting:
- The future:
- DeveloperPages
