And maybe I can take a little credit for small improvements here and there, and nagging people into making certain changes :-)) (And of course, the Pidgin developers for writing Pidgin, and Richard Hult from Imendio AB for GTK+OSX. Installing Pidgin on Mac OS X is now as simple as installing any other Mac OS X application, thanks to a train of effort from many people, starting with Anders Hasselqvist (“nevil”) for writing the patch with the gtkstatusicon implementation, Thomas Reifferscheid (reiffert) for including it on MacPorts, and finally Albert Zeyer for building it with Xcode and the GTK framework and making a. This is very simple to do and requires only one step, described below. Install Pidgin to run on the Mac desktop directly (without X11), using native GTK+ for Mac OS X and some minor modifications to Pidgin.It is cumbersome, and I would not recommend it unless you are already doing much of your work inside X11 for some reason. However, using an X11 app on OS X is really like entering another universe entirely… it’s like having two entirely disjoint OSes that just happen to run simultaneously. Any default distribution of Pidgin should build fine on this, as long as you have all the dependencies installed. On the other hand, if you, like me, have tried Adium and have reasons for finding it unusable, then it is possible to install Pidgin on OS X too. Being a native Cocoa application, it is more well-integrated with the Mac desktop than a GTK-using application like Pidgin can ever be. It has several popular features such as message styles, and uses the Cocoa API native to Mac OS X, and all round looks pretty. Too bad they don’t have an iPhone OS Application, then this would instantly become the ultimate chat client.So you’re on Mac OS X, and want to use Pidgin on it.įirst: Why not use Adium? Adium is a Free multi-protocol IM client for Mac OS X that uses libpurple, the IM library that was developed as part of Pidgin. But if you’re wanting to use With Adium now supporting Twitter this makes Adium even more useful. Not that it doesn’t work with everything else besides Twitter, because it does work beautifully. The second thing I’d like to see is highlighting of replies, even those that begin with I’m not saying don’t download the beta, but it might be prudent to wait until beta 2, if not beta 3 before giving the Twitter options a trial. It could even be an option (ie button) that you have to hit to post your iTunes song to Twitter. I’d like to have the ability to have my iTunes song status update Twitter. There is one feature I would like to see. Third item that adds to the potential need to wait, is that the Twitter updates do not always update without disconnecting and reconnecting. So if you’re following 20,000 this can be rather daunting. Secondly, When you connect to Twitter, a new group is created, which includes ALL of those you’re following. There is no semblance of order for your followers. I wonder if due to signing on, how many requests that takes up. The setting of two minutes is well beneath the Twitter API limit of 80 requests per hour. The default is 10 minutes, while the lowest you can go is 2 minutes. There is one thing to note, as soon as you authorize your Adium installation with Twitter, you might want to change the frequency at which Adium updates your timeline. I know there is an easier way, but this is one of the ways that I found to actually pull up the Timeline, which is actually a group chat. The timeline should appear, it might be a bit slow to load.Once the information page loads, which stopped working for me after a while, click on the symbol to send a reply to that person.Hit command-I to pull up their information.It’s a quick few seconds to actually allow Adium access to Twitter.Īt first I had some issues with finding where to actually see my timeline, but I was able to find it by doing the following: Click on ‘OK’, and you should be good to go.A Screen like the one below should now be shown.Once logged into to Twitter, click on ‘Authorize’.This will bring up a browser to have you login and authorize Adium to access your Twitter account. A Dialog similar to the one below will appear.
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