Can we just go back to aim? I really hate having one damn view for channels, so if I'm talking to two people I have to constantly switch back and forth. I still don't get how these kinds of tools get such a big following.
I think that's the biggest flaw with a lot of web-based chats. There's no flexibility in layout. With a chat app like pidgin, I can choose how things are laid out, set up notifications a lot easier, etc. Webapps tend to be a lot more limited in such areas -- not able to choose notification sounds, set various things to notify in different ways, etc.
Yeah but no one seems to be making anything but web apps. I guess I come from a time just before this but I honestly can't understand how people think these things are better than their native counterparts.
For a long time it opened a new window for each conversation so you could have a few going at once and see them all side-by-side. At some point tabbed windows became standard, but I'm pretty sure most clients like Pidgin will still give you the option of separate windows.
