On 4/10/2013 6:32 PM, James Harper wrote:
What chat program should I be using these days to ensure maximum cross-compatibility? I suspect there isn't an answer.
It used to be that I would use a jabber based chat client and I could talk to google (xmpp), msn (via a bridge), and anyone else running XMPP based services. Then MSN went to something incompatible and stupid (Skype?), and now google have gone to hangouts which is not XMPP, and I'm left with connectivity to the remaining few people still using the old google chat client. I've recently been using Pidgin (both Win & Linux), Kopete and Telepathy (KDE's Ktp?) for communicating with people on Google chat/hangouts, MSN (Windows Live I think it is actually) and ICQ with no issues (except for MSN if I'm @ work.. that's blocked somehow). All 3 clients on a mix of Fedora, Gentoo & Kubuntu desktops. Works fine for me.
hth. cheers, - Brendon