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#1 2007-10-23 08:49:51

Mr Green
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Instantfox

http://instantbird.com/

Anyone tried this?

Wondered if its worth building


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#2 2007-10-23 10:08:04

shamrok
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Re: Instantfox

Tried, looks bad, it has only minimum functionality, currently not worth using.

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#3 2007-10-23 12:20:01

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Re: Instantfox

right ok.... I'll wait for a while thanks


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#4 2007-10-23 14:21:41

Allan
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Re: Instantfox

I had a look at this too... It is just another frontend for pidgin.  So you need the pidgin source code and the backend already built before you can build the package.  I don't understand what they are doing that pidgin doesn't.

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#5 2007-10-23 14:45:20

shamrok
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Re: Instantfox

Not Pidgin exactly but libpurple, and sources are already in instantfox package (tar.gz) so you can install it just like firefox/thundebird (download tar.gz, extract and run it). Most interesting idea behind instantfox are themes and extension, just like in FF/TB, so it can be customized and expanded nearly as FF/TB. But for now it is just 0.1 version, I hope that 1.0 will be stable and have options/functions just like others clients (pidgin/psi/kopete).

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#6 2007-10-23 15:01:54

Allan
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Re: Instantfox

OK - from the README.compile (or something like that) file it made it sound as if you need to build libpurple separately and have pidgin/libpurple header files in the build directory.  Probably hasn't been updated though... these things always get missed!

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#7 2007-10-23 20:33:45

xaw
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Re: Instantfox

I tried this out a few days ago actually. It's not quite worth it yet, but it'll be interesting to see how it progresses over a month or two at least.


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