Pidgin's finally catching up to the video, audio, and file transfer offerings of Google Talk, Yahoo, and others.
The big new feature in the 2.6 releases—already at a bug-fixing 2.6.1 as this is written—is video and voice chat support over XMPP, known primarily as the Jabber/Google Talk protocol. Unfortunately, that video and audio chat support isn't working on Windows at the moment (kind of a big target to miss, no?), but the Pidgin team says it's coming soon. |
Empathy has had all that for a while with the addition of geolocation, and support for collaborative apps (like editing a document with a friend and other cool stuff)
Not to mention, Empathy uses the Telepathy framework to support all the different IM protocols =] |
http://stemp.wordpress.com/2009/08/20/pidgin-2-6-1-audiovideo/
Here are the DEBs with video activated |
One thing that is LONG lacking is support for animated gifs! As of now, you can SEE the animated gif (emoticon), but when you save or add it to your client it appears as a single frozen picture... |
