Who here has purchased Trillian?

VLSmooth · Post by **VLSmooth** » Tue Oct 21, 2003 10:48 pm

Just curious, since I'm seriously thinking about it. I'm also wondering if I can run it both at home and at work by paying once, or will I need to pay twice (ie. I don't know if it phones home, although I'm pretty sure it doesn't).

Any comments?

VLSmooth · Post by **VLSmooth** » Tue Oct 21, 2003 10:51 pm

The three biggest motivations I have for buying it are:

Jabber support via a plug-in.
We use jabber at work, and I've gotta say the default client sucks ass, especially with crazy focus-stealing AND minimization.
History in the same chat window.
Instead of having to open up a clunky log window.
A warm fuzzy feeling.
Er, no comment.

Post by **Jonathan** » Tue Oct 21, 2003 10:53 pm

I'm not sure this is the software-purchasing crowd, exactly.

quantus · Post by **quantus** » Tue Oct 21, 2003 10:57 pm

Well, purchasing is something you do when you have money around and some people here actually do have money around...

quantus · Post by **quantus** » Tue Oct 21, 2003 10:58 pm

To answer the topic, no I haven't bought it and am doing fine with v0.74f

Post by **Jonathan** » Tue Oct 21, 2003 10:58 pm

Besides... Gaim.

Jason · Post by **Jason** » Wed Oct 22, 2003 4:20 am

I might buy it. Was thinking of waiting a few months and seeing how the whole transition goes and whether there are any problems with all that msn crap now.

Peijen · Post by **Peijen** » Fri Oct 24, 2003 3:55 pm

on the topic of paying for software or lack of, any suggestion for office 2003?

Post by **Jonathan** » Fri Oct 24, 2003 5:06 pm

Alan · Post by **Alan** » Fri Oct 24, 2003 7:49 pm

Oh yeah I tried to buy Office XP from the computer store during the summer and then at the beginning of the year and both times they were "out of stock". Fuckers. I gave up and I'm just using the copy of Word Perfect that came with my computer.

Post by **Jonathan** » Fri Oct 24, 2003 9:59 pm

Open Office!

tasheren · Post by **tasheren** » Fri Oct 24, 2003 11:37 pm

Doing fine here with trillian pro 2 heh

Hmm alan didnt you borrow my office xp cd before? I guess you didn't make a copy for yourself? shame on you!

Alan · Post by **Alan** » Fri Oct 24, 2003 11:41 pm

Yeah I didn't make a copy. You can get Office XP for $10 though, provided they have any in stock.

tasheren · Post by **tasheren** » Fri Oct 24, 2003 11:56 pm

Actually I can also get them for free from my department but...stupid people are never there when I actually need it so I resort back to the *free* copies.

VLSmooth · Post by **VLSmooth** » Sat Oct 25, 2003 11:26 pm

Dwindlehop wrote:Besides... Gaim.

Yep, I've seen Gaim in person (haven't used it myself), but its interface just doesn't seem to be as slick or clean as trillian's (yes, I know about themes). Also, the in-window history, although minor, is incredibly useful.

Nonetheless, I'll try gaim first before making a purchasing decision.

VLSmooth · Post by **VLSmooth** » Sat Oct 25, 2003 11:42 pm

Hmm, just learned about the "History 0.71" plug-in. Guess I'm not buying Trillian

note: default buddies list icon showing takes up WAY too much space.

VLSmooth · Post by **VLSmooth** » Sat Oct 25, 2003 11:55 pm

Dark Tip: AIM Sniff
http://www.techtv.com/screensavers/answ ... 02,00.html

As if people didn't already know... (yes, with trillian I use blowfish encryption). Investigating gaim-e now...

(the video highlight is a nice tidbit)

VLSmooth · Post by **VLSmooth** » Sun Oct 26, 2003 12:48 am

Dammit. Ok, I might go back to trillian now. I don't know how to explain it, but Gaim's interface is simply lacking compared to Trillian. This is after much font tweaking, both with in Gaim itself and the GTK.
(fyi, window gtk font tweaking's default path is here: "C:\Program Files\Common Files\GTK\2.0\etc\gtk-2.0\gtkrc")

There's also the issue of Gaim taking up over 11 MB of memory (no doubt due to the GTK), whereas Trillian uses less than 3 (fun with Windows graphic libraries). Since Gaim would be the only application using the GTK, it seems overly excessive.

Still, I find the elusive interface issue to be more significant -_-

note: it's also stupid to have to re-install Gaim to get encryption support.

Mohtalim

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