Comments on: Revisited: Finally Adium for Windows.

By: Tom

Tom — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 03:53:18 +0000

@Burke Too bad Digsby doesn’t have a version out yet for anything other then windows. I feel like windows users have never had a great client a la Adium for OS X…. and Digsby might just be that… I don’t know, haven’t tried it.

By: Burke

Burke — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 16:50:02 +0000

Definately check out Digsby if you haven’t. It blows everything else out of the water.

http://armsinfragilehands.blogspot.com/2008/04/adium-for-windows.html

By: Ian and Juliane

Ian and Juliane — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 05:49:51 +0000

I am looking for a Yahoo! Messenger client for Windows or Linux that will SPEAK out the messages. I have speakers on my stairs which can be heard from anywhere in my small house, and I had used Adium so that I can send messages to my wife from work and she can hear Adium speak out the text of my messages if she’s at home.

But the old iMac is dying and my wife’s new computer is a Windows machine (here in Malaysia, we could make a generic WinTel machine for only approximately US$150, while a new Mac would cost MUCH more than that, as we have to pay MORE than American prices.)

But I’ve not found a Windows or LINUX-based Yahoo client that can speak out the text of the messages yet.

By: TechMage89

TechMage89 — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 18:50:39 +0000

…the other thing that could *potentially* be done is to work on gnustep or cocotron (two attempts to do a different implementation of the cocoa API, the first one geared more towards linux (although it will run on windows) and the second one for windows) and see how much work is needed to get adium running on those.

I like the idea of implementing cocoa on windows and linux, because it’s a nice API, and would make it really easy to do cross-platform development.

By: Morgul

Morgul — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 11:00:32 +0000

It would be helpful to have a list of ‘most wanted features’ Adium has, compare them to Pidgin, and then come up with some sort of ‘design checklist’ that an IM client would need to follow if it were to be ‘Adium for Windows’.

The reason I point this out is simple: I’ve been very tempted to write a Qt version of Pidgin/Adium. (I’m not alone, I know at least four other developers who’d hop on in true open source fashion.) the advantage of Qt would be pretty profound: 1) Theme-able (Yes, as theme-able as Adium, if not more so.) 2) Crossplatform. Any platform libpurple/Qt supported. (Which includes the Big Three, Mac, Linux, Windows) 3) It would be possible to get it included as the default IM program in KDE, which is pushing itself into not just a Linux dominance, but moving into windows, and Mac as well. (More a personal goal, not an advantage, as it were. Still being the default IM for a desktop environment would be a big boon for any OpenSource project.)

I guess this is just my thoughts on resolving the ‘adiumless’ windows dilemma.