Pidgin Portable 2.0.2 Pre-Release 1 (Testers Needed)

Is there any reason, besides the reasons Gaim changed, to use Pidgin? Im happy with Gaim Portable (though i use pidgin for main installation).
Ill try it anyways later but ill definately keep an installation file for Gaim Portable if Pidgin dosent work.

broken link?
edit: nvm just wierd pc lol

Works great, no problems at all.

"If a dog jumps in your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer."
Alfred North Whitehead

Just installed Pidgin Portable & it seemed to copied everything (Settings, Account info, saved away messages) from GAIM Portable over by itself!

The only thing I had to move manually was the personal icon I used.

It might be a bit early to say this, but Pidgin is probably ready for a public release!

~TStodden

No Probs installed fine.
Added all Gaim settings to Pidgin

greetz

Installed Pidgin Portable and it copied all data successfully from GAIM to Pidgin. I have only seen two issues thus far... First appears to be a Pidgin related issue of not connecting to my companies Domino Sametime server. Worked fine in GAIM but will not connect with Pidgin. Second is that it took all my OTR keys but my AIM key. It would not generate a new key until someone IM'ed me that had OTR as well.

It did not seem to copy over any of my settings for any of the plugins that are installed. It copied the icon pack I use but none of the plugin settings or even the fact that they were enabled were copied over. I had to manually set them up. No worries but that thought did just come to my head. I aint bitchin... Just mentioning.

Neither are issues that can be resolved by PA.com but just reporting that those are the only issues I have encountered so far.

Looks good!!

If it is looking forward the commmonfiles/ and the GTK portable external package shouldn't be the the two using the same GTK?
There is any progress about a GTK portable package?
GIMP 2.2.17 gives an error about missing libexpat.dll on starting if using commonfiles/gtk from the pidgin package. is the same if I take the GTK directory and substitute the one from GIMP or if I overwrite the GIMP one with the one from pidgy(first time I would clean the GTK directory the second I'll not). All operations over the commonfiles directory and deleting the one from the program App directory

For the rest I cannot say much as I use miranda and was expecting some stability or save space in the change. Has pidgy as much community plugins as miranda do?
PS -
Awesome applications--
Waiting for Common gpg,GTK&open java

During the install, if you hover over the checkbox for translation the description reads "Install various translations for GIMP Portable".

Not a big deal but I figured I'd point it out. And if this was already discussed, my bad.

it loads a little slower, and recognizes clicks a bit slower than my stationary pidgin, but i't carries portable settings very well. I just copied my .purple directory over the one the PA version made, and everything works like a charm. I think its ready to be released.

I like when I'm away all week, come back, and there's like an app-a-day released.

For Pidgin, it's great to finally see it released in beta, I haven't tested the GTK stuff yet, but I will. Couple quick notes, as said above the hover text for the translations is wrong. Maybe change that line to "Installs various translations for ${NAME} to avoid this in the future. Also, the 48 icon views poorly for me in Tile View, but the shortcut I have on my desktop for Pidgin viewed in Tile Mode looks fine. As well, as sick as the "pidgin" name logo is, I think you should stick with the Meta Bold LF Roman, as it's standard to all your splashes, and it looks nice, but perhaps stick with those few different shades of purple for the text. Just a suggestion.

As for eraser. I am SUPER DUPER happy about that one, and I'm sure many other people are too.

As for aMSN, awesome choice, as many people are unfamiliar with Pidgin, and probably wouldn't use is, they see "aMSN Portable" and as like 75 of the people in the world use msn, will be like sweet, I can use MSN anywhere.

As for InfraRecorder, a lot of people are going to like this one as well.

As for VirtualDub, very handy utility.

You're amazing John, keep up the great work. And sorry abut my poor use of commas.

Edit: All of the icons for InfraRecorder, Pidgin, and aMSN Launchers are missing the 48 icon? How'd that happen?
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It's kinda scary when my desktop is messier than my room...

For some odd reason, whenever I close out of Pidgin, a popup appears saying Pidgin has encountered an error and needs to close.

Anyone else find this issue or is only me?

The program works fine! One minor issue, though: when selecting what components to install, the installer asks if the user wants language support for GIMP. Should this be changed to language support for Pidgin? Thanks!

On a clean install, adding the aspell binaries to the aspell directory doesn't add squigglies to misspelled words. Am I missing something?

Awesome! I'm so excited to have pidgin running now! I've been waiting for a gaim update for some time now.

A few notes/ideas/points:

As noted above, Apspell isn't working for me either. Do we need to add an extension ourselves?

Would it be possible to have an official PA.com installer for guifications? That would be nice.

How do we use just one version of GTK? Someone had a problem with it, but I'd like to try it.

The Weekend Meltdown - my podcast

New Launcher and Encryption. Oddly enough MSN is working in Pidgin as where the last week or so it had been causing Gaim to crash. Hence why I tested the aMSN beta as well.

Top notch work.

Does this mean that the Gaim Portable section will be changing to Pidgin Portable pretty soon?

When running the Pidgin_Portable_2.0.2_PRERELEASE1.paf.exe, I get this error:

http://img488.imageshack.us/img488/2461/pdginerrornu5.gif

(Translation would be something like "The NTVDM-CPU disovered an invalid command".)

This happens on Windows XP Home with latest updates on Pentium 4.

it works like a charm.

I am going to give up my compiled portable version that I made from the normal pidgin install (though I doubt there is much difference) and test this out.

So far works good and the encryption is awesome!

Thanks John!

Me and a buddy from work are using the beta. No problems to report.

Sean

I've been using the beta for a week without problems.
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There are 10 kind of people in this world: those who understand binary, and those with friends.

I can wait for that!

i spotted this when i was installing when you hover your mouse over the translations part of the installer it says in the description "various tranlation for gimp portable" might want to fix this before it goes live

when i click on one of the drop down menues like buddies account tools etc. that buttons goes all white, then if i hover my mouse over any item in the drop down menu that items goes all white too.

this progrma is great btw, nice and fast.

To upgrade to version 2.1.0 could we not just copy a local installed copy into the portable versions folder?

Would that work or have there been other modifications made to the actual application.