From time to time I work on #Quail which is (or rather was) an instant messaging client based on #libpurple using the #Qt toolkit.

It has pretty much been abandoned for 9 years and the little bit of work I've put in so far was mostly just fixing some bugs I experienced when testing it. I'd like to continue working on it in the little bit of spare time I have although I don't really have a clear idea where I want to go with this.

Continue reading: https://dev.to/iv4nhoe/make-something-old-better-or-make-something-new-thats-possibly-worse-3kg9

Background story on my motivation behind adapting #Dino https://fsci.in/blog/importance-of-free-software/ #xmpp #FreeSoftware

#Gajim is the only other app that works decently with #omemo/end to end encryption, though its developers are opposed to making the ui adaptive. The other app #chatty has good adaptive ui, but end to end encryption is broken and it is unlikely to see any fixes anytime soon (since it uses #libpurple and does not have any recent releases).

Background story on my motivation behind adapting #Dino https://fsci.in/blog/importance-of-free-software/ #xmpp #FreeSoftware

#Gajim is the only other app that works decently with #omemo/end to encryption, though its developers are opposed to making the ui adaptive. The other app #chatty has good adaptive ui, but end to encryption is broken and it is unlikely to see any fixes anytime soon (since it uses #libpurple and does not have any recent releases).

With all the interest in #mastodon I kinda wish the #libpurple #bitlbee or #irssi plugin compatibility wasn't so buggy...

@ArnoldSchiller RIP #Pidgin & #libpurple

Could #KDEConnectSMS or its GNOME equivalent be made to work as a #libpurple plugin for #Pidgin? I do like how Pidgin allows me to have my Matrix, IRC, Whatsapp, and Telegram all together, and it would really ice the cake to have access to my text messages there too.

#KDE #KDEConnect #GSConnect #SMS

Pidgin is a chat program which supports connecting to many chat networks simultaneously.

The logo is a purple pigeon and the open source program uses #libpurple to connect to various chat protocols.

There are too many variety of pigeons that have purple feathers.

#pidgin

#adium is a free instant messaging application for #macos that can connect to #xmpp #jabber #irc and many other protocols using the #libpurple library.

Black East Indian Duck is an ornamental breed of domestic duck. It has very dark, lustrous greenish-black plumage and a black bill.

https://adium.im/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Indie

My current WeeChat setup

Since it's come up in conversation a couple of times in the past week (waves at @snowdusk__ and @yarmo), here's a #screenshot of my current #WeeChat setup (though with different buffers selected than my usual arrangement).

"What am I looking at on the screenshot?"

A buffer list ¹ on the left. Buffers represent the channels, private message streams and status timelines from the various chat media you are connected to.
Side the buffer list are a variety of horizontally and vertically panes, which @weechat called 'windows', each window showing the contents of one
² of the buffers.

"What buffers are visible in these window panes?"

From top left to bottom right these are:

• #sourcehut's water cooler IRC channel,
• #Twitter timeline, provided through the Twitter #libpurple plugin for #Bitlbee.
• #chanmon, a Perl script to display activity from all currently active (and monitored) buffers.
• #highmon, a Perl script to display highlights from all (highlight-monitored) buffers.
• Lobby #IRC channel, general discussion channel.
• #openMSX on #liberaChat IRC network, for discussions regarding the #MSX emulator I occasionally contribute to.
• #Twitch chat channel for #Kikoskia's stream, provided by setting up a Twitch OAuth token and connecting over their IRC-compatible interface along with twitch python script for stream status details.
• The #WeeChat IRC channel on #libera.

"What's making it work?"

All running in a #tmux terminal multiplexer session, running under #WSL2 on #Windows, in the #WindowsTerminalPreview #terminal client.

(Repost to fix an at-mention...)

Footnotes

¹ though I still use buffers.pl script rather than the built-in buflist plugin because I'm too lazy to migrate my settings to make it look and act in the way I've gotten used to.
² or more, as buffers can be merged, displaying the contents of each of the merged buffers chronologically in the same window pane.

Hashtags

#Battlestations #chat #chatClients #IRCClients #IRCClient #InternetRelayChat #MultiProtocol #FOSS #FLOSS

@deltajulyhotel 100% will go back to using it if / when they start supporting #OMEMO encryption.

The good news is they decided to work on it. The bad news is it has been about 6 years and it's still not implemented :(

https://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/16801

#libpurple is pretty awesome, though!

Have #google finally turned off the old #jabber interface for hangouts? I can no longer get #bitlbee to connect to it in either native or #libpurple forms.

While I am still in the process of setting up my #PinePhone after reinstall: Anybody ever tried buulding #Pidgin with #GTK3? As I want to mess around with #libpurple-plugins, I would love to have a non-Xwayland GUI that's more adjusted to working with many plugins than #Chatty currently is. (Advice on how to do everything with Chatty is also appreciated!)
#LinuxPhones #Librem5

a mastodon plugin for #pidgin / #libpurple would be great, too. anyone out there who knows their ways around with portable C?