I recently made the switch from Pidgin to Gajim and have been using a jabber server that supports transporting of msn, icq, and aim to talk to the people that refuse to support jabber.

I have been pretty happy with the switch to Gajim and in actual fact it is not much different on the surface than Pidgin. One thing I did notice was the iconsets for transport protocols do not work unless you turn on Preferences -> General -> Interface Customization -> Use Transports iconset.

After turning this on it reports the correct status of any users in the transport group, but uses a different icon image than all your jabber contacts. To correct this I copied the contents of “/usr/share/gajim/data/iconsets/jabberbulb/” (jabberbulb was the icon theme I was using for the jabber contacts) to “/usr/share/gajim/data/iconsets/transports/msn/” (for msn, do the same for aim, icq, etc). I didn’t know if this would work since MSN has a lot more status icons than the jabberbulb set, but it seems to be happy and everyone on my contact list now looks like a jabber user (best as I can get for now till everyone sees the light and switches).

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