>--[Paul Johnson]--<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 07:52:30PM +0100, Pontus Edvardsson wrote:
> > What is the best/most useful ICQ client in your opinion? I've checked out > > gaim, licq & kicq2. Is there any better ones, with closer resemblance the > > original windows client? > I think licq is the best one out there, the Windows client is iffy at best. Damn, no, licq is the most broken one regarding the ICQ protocol. Also, the KDE plugin is very crashy. KXicq2 doesn't seem very alive to me. Kopete sounds very promising (also several protocol support), but it still has some serious bugs (like claims to be able to receive UTF8 and RTF messages, though it can't). I wouldn't comment on whether GAIM, GnomeICU or ickle are good or bad, I never used them really. There's also another KDE client I don't want to mention that's just licqicq2000, licq and mICQ code munged together and slapped with a new "author" name. For a terminal ICQ, try mICQ (the cvs version even has support for UTF8 messages, the first OSS ICQ client doing so). Or centericq if you depend on multiple protocols. A mostly complete list: http://www.stud.uni-karlsruhe.de/~uck4/ICQ/ >--[Kirk Strauser]--<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > At 2002-11-12T18:52:30Z, Pontus Edvardsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Is there any better ones, with closer resemblance the original windows > > client? > Thank God, no, none seem to resemble the Windows ICQ client in the > slightest. I consider that to be a Good Thing. *g* Better have ICQ clients that give you better control over what's happening, because that's where win ICQ is notoriously bad at. Though Linux clients sometimes are not better, like not using an already existing direct connection to send messages... (that's pretty much all except mICQ...). Yours, R�diger (mICQ maintainer). -- 100 DM = 51 � 13 �. 100 � = 195 DM 58 pf. mailto:ruediger@;ruediger-kuhlmann.de http://www.ruediger-kuhlmann.de/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
