If one's right for you, great! Doesn't mean the other one isn't right for other people. Gaim and Trillian are made to fill a different niches. ("I am Trillian MacLeod of the clan MacLeod, and I've come to take your head developer!") You can find other instances in the Gaim changelog of code donated from Trillian it's certainly not like we're out to kill open source and crush all opposition or something. I am also trying out Proteus, but I cannot get it to work with IRC. I don't like Adium, so are there alternatives I am currently using iChat and LimeChat, but I want a single app. You'll even notice we at Cerulean are on good terms with the Gaim team when Yahoo locked everyone out last time, we deciphered the new login protocol and donated it to Gaim (and to Adium as a result). I want an IM client which supports Jabber and IRC. It's not like there's some Highlander-esque 'there can be only one!' situation with instant messaging clients. Heck, even the new iChat in Tiger is pretty straightforward for Joe Average Mac User.
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And for those who are on Mac OS X, Adium X is pretty kickass. And to some extent, that userbase tends to be more prominent on Windows.įor those who are really into OSS or are on Linux, Sean and the others who work on it have made a great app in Gaim. SUPPORT INTRODUCED RETIRED Adium no no planning AIM yes no stable v1.0.0 Digsby yes no beta v1.0.3 Empathy no no planning Facebook (dl) no never planning. It's designed, as has been noted, more for Joe Average this is why Trillian 3.0 is made to look and feel more like a Windows XP application in the preferences system and whatnot. Honestly, Trillian's designed not for the power-users who want to get down and dirty with every little aspect of an IM protocol, or for OSS activists. We /do/ periodically re-examine the possibility, but. (Of course, a depressing number of Macintosh applications also do, but still.) And for a small development team, trying to keep a single code tree in sync across multiple platforms without making it suffer overall, would be hard that's something far easier for an OSS project. Trillian is a multinetwork chat client that currently supports mIRC, AIM.
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I develop Mac OS X software in my spare time, and I can tell you flat out that Trillian would violate the Aqua Design Guidelines six ways from Sunday unless completely reworked, just for starters. Download Adium X for Mac - Adium is a multiple protocol instant messaging client. (FWIW, at least two Trillian developers - including me - have Macs as well as windows boxes. It's not even so much that we're uninterested, it's that we know Trillian isn't really as well-suited to the model of MacOS X or Linux applications. One of the developers of Trillian posted this on Slashdot a few months back when asked why Cerulean Studios isn't going to develop Trillian for OS X:
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