a sane jabber client for windows
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If you're unfortunate enough to be running Windows, then there is a large selection of Jabber clients out there for you to choose from, but unfortunately every one I have seen have been terrible.
Until now.
Pandion has a relatively sane user interface. The roster is excellent, although there is no immediately obvious way of changing your status (click on your contact at the top of the list, but not on your avatar image). Also, there is only one global message for all presence status (unlike the way Gossip does it, which rocks) and you cannot seem to be able to edit the list of preset messages.
The chat window is a bit over the top. It could use more native widgets and look less like a web page, but it is relatively clean and functional.
It has sane preferences that have sane defaults. Unlike most Jabber clients, it has only five categories of settings to look through. I'd like to find out what priority it gives when online and when away or extended away, however. Happily, it supports SSL out of the box.
While it isn't GPLed, it is free-as-in-beer and seems to have a reasonable community growing around it.
Check it out.
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I use Exodus at work. It's usable but not fantastic.
Posted by: David Hill on September 22, 2004 11:30 PM
Yeah, but it seems that Exodus is near impossible to use. The problem with it (and with most Jabber clients) is that they try to expose the underlying Jabber protocol to users.
This is great if you're a Jabber guru or hacker, but it kind of sucks if you don't care about obscure XMPP terminology and features and just want to be able to IM other people.
For your general user, Pandion is a much better choice.
Posted by: Mike on September 25, 2004 03:37 PM
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