software oddity

[redbird]

After rysmiel mentioned gmail and chatting earlier today, I started wondering whether Google talk was willing to work with Gaim. Technically, it's not, the protocol isn't supported: but that mostly means that the last time they upgraded the program, they renamed it, so I now have a cheerful IM window with a client called Pidgin.

The oddity is that rather than either list all my buddies on different hosts and such together, or list them all separately (as Gaim did), it's showing me one list for people on the LJ Jabber server, and one for people on AOL's IM client and those on Gmail. My mother not being logged on right now, I don't know how it handles Yahoo Messenger. (I log into that because Mom does--it's the program my brother set her up on, and no hassle for me to talk to through the same client I'm using anyway. (Mom, you don't need to change anything about your software because of what I've changed.))

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[jbsegal.livejournal.com]

While you have default groupings, you can re-arrange anything you want in to any combination that makes sense.

I combine all people with multiple accounts in to one contact in whatever group I've decided they go it. (As I'm on AIM, Y!M, GTalk and LJ Jabber all the time, it's just easier that way.)