Pidgin, Finch, and libpurple
Pidgin is a graphical IM program that lets you sign on to AIM, Jabber, MSN, Yahoo!, and other IM networks. It runs on Microsoft Windows and Unixes. It is written in C and uses GLib and GTK+.
Finch is a console-based IM program that lets you sign on to AIM, Jabber, MSN, Yahoo!, and other IM networks. It runs on Unixes. It uses GLib and ncurses.
libpurple is a library used for developing IM programs. See What is libpurple? for more information.
For Users
Help
- Frequently Asked Questions - Look here first!
- Using This Site
- Tips for Bug Reports - You must be logged in to submit bug reports!
- Get a Backtrace - Follow these directions to help us debug crashes.
- Using Pidgin
- Default Keyboard Shortcuts
- ConfigurationFiles - what is in your .purple directory
- Using Libpurple
- Using Finch
The Pidgin Community
- PidginCommunity
- Mailing Lists
- The Pidgin Philosophy - Why some things in Pidgin are the way they are
- Merchandise
- Spread Pidgin - User submitted "fanart" to help Pidgin become even more popular!
- Third-Party plugins - A page for plugin developers to list their plugins for users to see
- Third-Party Smiley Themes - A page for smiley theme authors to list their smiley themes for users to see
For Developers
Some services have moved
1 November 2008: Note that the monotone server has moved to mtn.pidgin.im. You should update your databases appropriately, with either mtn pull --set-default mtn.pidgin.im <pattern> or mtn set database default-server mtn.pidgin.im.
Google Summer of Code
- 2009 Projects
- SoC Discussions
- Project Ideas
- Previous years:
Development Tools
Development Information
- Patches:
- TipsForTranslators
- Building Pidgin
- Development FAQ
- DesignGuidelines
- Building on Windows
- Source code from version control:
- Plugins and scripting:
- The future:
- Possible License Violations
- DeveloperPages
The Road to 2.6.4
Last Modified by rekkanoryo, 5 weeks ago
