The Perfect Name for a Pidgin Killer
Submitted by Xenoveritas on Sun, 2007-09-02 17:37.
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I've come up for a perfect name for a Pidgin-killer: Peregrine.
Peregrine falcons are natural predators of pigeons. Plus, it doesn't appear that anyone has used this name for anything software-related.
Fuck pidgin.
In reference to your comment here, http://www.xenoveritas.org/blog/xeno/pidgin_ui_sucks, "Overall, I'm yet again finding that I want to create a new front-end based on the Pidgin net code that creates a useful GUI instead of the crap they're offering instead." did you ever complete this?
Pidgin
You -really- don't like the UI of pidgin. ^^;
The powerful sounding name loses its' punch a bit when you realize that it would have to use pidgin's libpurple anyways to have even close to the feature set in a reasonable timeframe. It might be nice, though, to have a libpurple based IM client on windows that uses a sane GUI toolkit like wxWidgets... GTK would certainly -not- be my toolkit of choice.
Adium is the nicest (mac-only) IM client UI I've had the pleasure of using and it's based on libgaim/libpurple (I'm not sure if they've moved on to libpurple yet).
As an aside, the ruby bindings for libpurple are called.... ruburple. I can't make that up, the name is really that bad. Ruburple. *sigh*
Ruburple
If you take a look at the source of ruburple you will see that the name fits perfectly - the hoops I had to jump through to make ruby talk to libpurple are very quaint.