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Hi,
I am searching for a Allround Chatprogramm taht includes ICQ, MSN and other Tools. Can someone help me or give a tip how i google for it?

First if your os is win32 you can try trilian or you can have the sourceforge gaim project that runs on multiple operating systems.

Yea i try trillian.. my os is win32

win32? that's a weird naming
personally, i really like Miranda from http://www.miranda-im.org...
It's completly plugin based and there are plugins for icq, msn, yahoo, jabber, irc, winamp, weather, rss, differnt chatwindows, NowIGetBoredOfTyping, ...

no miranda is no my thing.. someone kno how i can connect with a bouncer at trillian?

deeg wrote:no miranda is no my thing.. someone kno how i can connect with a bouncer at trillian?

Oh, why don't you like miranda? Anything in particular? (try making a bit longer posts by answering stuff like that without having to be asked )

Hm, I don't have access to any bouncers so i can only say what I think to have read somewhere: DOn't you connect to bouncers in the sam e way as you would connect to a server? just enter the proper ip/hostname and port and connect...

Yea i know how to connect with a bouncer, but at trillian there is no textwondow where i can put in my password.

I don't like miranda because you must to much things that it runs like u want to..

deeg wrote:Yea i know how to connect with a bouncer, but at trillian there is no textwondow where i can put in my password.

I don't like miranda because you must to much things that it runs like u want to..

use gaim (i don't know how it works with trillian - should be the same though)
and type "/msg passauth identify yourpass", where passauth is normally NickServ or some similar services. The idea is to send a private message to the bot/service/server using the right syntax of the client (gaim or miranda or triallian ...)
Cheers (and learn s'more on irc (commands, scripts, how it works, etc.. )) !

ps: oh and gaim's pretty well rounded and compatible with a lot of others as well (aim, icq, y!m, msn, jabber, irc, gadu-gadu, etc...)

version 2.0 beta 3.1 just came out not too long ago http://gaim.sourceforge.net/ . i'm expecting the full release to come out pretty soon.

deeg wrote:no miranda is no my thing.. someone kno how i can connect with a bouncer at trillian?

I wonder in which way Miranda "is not their thing" for people. I often heared that line, but never seen real reasons. Is it just the impatience to get further plugins and themes by actually searching through a huge databse instead of having only the chose between a few or already have a few themes installed by default?
I wonder if the misssing features are just some plugins that are missing ^-^.

De Kus wrote:I wonder in which way Miranda "is not their thing" for people. I often heared that line, but never seen real reasons. Is it just the impatience to get further plugins and themes by actually searching through a huge databse instead of having only the chose between a few or already have a few themes installed by default?
I wonder if the misssing features are just some plugins that are missing ^-^.

I also sometimes thing that miranda is missing some features, but usually, those are not features found in trillian etc. Almost all combo-clients have problems with some of the special features (most of them not that interesting anyway) like flash avatars, Xtras, TZers, Audibles, etc. I know there are flashavatar plugins, but i have not yet found a way to get it displayed the way I would like, and xtras had not been done, last time i checked...
But I guess the biggest problem is indeed, that more customizability means more work to get it theway you want, in this case, looking through the plugins...

use a pure irc client and bitlbee. it's a perl-based script/plugin that'll allow you to embed the other clients into your irc client.

personally, X-Chat and bitlbee makes a good combo.

(Note: bitlbee is a server, you connect to it just like you would a normal irc server, and then you can login to your various chat protocols, so if possible, you should try running your own bitlbee server on your local network.)

I use GAIM which is open source, you can chat on msn, icq, irc etc...

I think it's a good program

SlicerSV wrote:use a pure irc client and bitlbee. it's a perl-based script/plugin that'll allow you to embed the other clients into your irc client.

personally, X-Chat and bitlbee makes a good combo.

(Note: bitlbee is a server, you connect to it just like you would a normal irc server, and then you can login to your various chat protocols, so if possible, you should try running your own bitlbee server on your local network.)

Seconding this. I started using bitlbee (im.bitlbee.org) a few weeks ago and it allowed me to totally ditch Miranda (which I loved). It's so much nicer to have your IM client integrated with your irc interface. It makes IMs feel like an extension of irc and it's one more program that I don't have to back-up in the event of a reformat.

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you can try meebo on www.meebo.com