Some guy named Mike Jones recently made a post to his blog complaining about Pidgin. The main part of it seems to consist of whining about how Pidgin looks. Sure, it might look a bit old, and it might need the facelift Mike is talking about, but for the love of god, don’t make it look like Vista. What you need to do is to add customizing features. I mean, taste varies from person to person, there’s no way everyone is going to be happy if you can’t change it yourself. I for one like the current look of Pidgin – on the other hand I hate that awful Vista look.
However, Mike fails to adress one of Pidgin’s biggest flaws: It’s memory print. I mean seriously, it’s huge, and that is totally unnacceptable for an application that is running all the time. Take a look at the IM I currently use, Miranda IM. It has an incredibly low memory print, when minimized I can get it down to just under 2MB. Pidgin on the other hand uses 20MB. Yes, ten times as much. (There are worse though, both Exodus and Mango are in the 30MB range). Pidgin developers need to focus a bit on optimizing IMO.
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