Pidgin is a multi-protocol instant messaging client. It is compatible with AIM
(Oscar and TOC protocols), ICQ, IRC, Jabber, Gadu-Gadu, and Zephyr networks.
Pidgin users can log in to multiple accounts on multiple IM networks
simultaneously. This means that you can be chatting with friends on AOL
Instant Messenger, talking to a friend on Yahoo Messenger, and sitting in an
IRC channel all at the same time.
Pidgin supports many features of the various networks, such as file transfer
(coming soon), away messages, typing notification, and MSN window closing
notification. It also goes beyond that and provides many unique features. A
few popular features are Buddy Pounces, which give the ability to notify you,
send a message, play a sound, or run a program when a specific buddy goes away,
signs online, or returns from idle; and plugins, consisting of text
replacement, a buddy ticker, extended message notification, iconify on away,
and more.
(Adapted from the About Pidgin page.)
===> The following configuration options are available for pidgin-2.14.14_2:
CAP=on: Contact Availability Prediction plugin
DBUS=on: D-Bus IPC system support
GEVOLUTION=off: Enable Evolution plugin
GSTREAMER=on: Use GStreamer for playing sounds
GTKSPELL=on: Spell checking support
IDN=on: International Domain Names support
PERL=off: Perl scripting language support
SASL=on: Cyrus SASL support (for jabberd)
TCLTK=off: Tcl/Tk GUI toolkit support
VV=on: Video and voice support
====> Options available for the group PROTOCOLS
BONJOUR=on: mDNS support and Bonjour protocol
GG=on: The Gadu-Gadu chat protocol
SAMETIME=off: The Lotus Sametime chat protocol
IRC=on: The Internet Relay Chat protocol
JABBER=on: The Jabber/XMPP/Google Talk protocol
NOVELL=on: The Novell GroupWise chat protocol
QQ=on: The Tencent QQ chat protocol
SIMPLE=on: The SIMPLE chat protocol
ZEPHYR=on: The Zephyr chat protocol
====> Secure network connection support via TLS: you can only select none or one of them
NSS=on: Use Mozilla NSS for encryption support
GNUTLS=off: Use GNUTLS for encryption support
===> Use 'make config' to modify these settings
net-im/(pidgin,libpurple): Remove SILC and make Evolution optional
The port of silc-toolkit was removed in 2025. Evolution is not required
to build Pidgin -- and is not necessary for many -- leave it optional,
defaulting to off (raise PORTREVISION).
accessibility/at-spi2-core: update to 2.46.0
What's new in at-spi2-core 2.46.0:
* Fix GetInterfaces documentation on org.a11y.atspi.Accessible
interface.
What's new in at-spi2-core 2.45.91:
* Send device event controller events using the same signature as other
events.
* Document the Accessible, Action, and Cache dbus interfaces.
* Fix license of atspi-gmain.c (#87).
What's new in at-spi2-core 2.45.90:
* xml: Add some documentation.
* xml: Fix event arguments.
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Fix WWW in parent/child ports
Many of the WWW are overwritten later which means the wrong value
is used. This did not happen before where the children were either
a) just using the pkg-descr from the parents
b) or had their own separate pkg-descr with custom WWW
Use WWW?= in parents when the child's WWW is different.
Children that use the same WWW as the parent can just inherit it,
i.e., the child WWW can be removed.
Approved by: portmgr (implicit)
Remove WWW entries moved into port Makefiles
Commit b7f05445c00f has added WWW entries to port Makefiles based on
WWW: lines in pkg-descr files.
This commit removes the WWW: lines of moved-over URLs from these
pkg-descr files.
Approved by: portmgr (tcberner)
Add WWW entries to port Makefiles
It has been common practice to have one or more URLs at the end of the
ports' pkg-descr files, one per line and prefixed with "WWW:". These
URLs should point at a project website or other relevant resources.
Access to these URLs required processing of the pkg-descr files, and
they have often become stale over time. If more than one such URL was
present in a pkg-descr file, only the first one was tarnsfered into
the port INDEX, but for many ports only the last line did contain the
port specific URL to further information.
There have been several proposals to make a project URL available as
a macro in the ports' Makefiles, over time.
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cleanup: remove '$MCom' tag
gnome@ no longer uses Marcusom as their staging ground.
Approved by: gnome (nc)
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D35866
net-im: remove 'Created by' lines
A big Thank You to the original contributors of these ports:
* <ports@c0decafe.net>
* Adam Weinberger <adamw@FreeBSD.org>
* Alberto Villa <avilla@FreeBSD.org>
* Alexander Logvinov <ports@logvinov.com>
* Alexander Timoshenko <gonzo@univ.kiev.ua>
* Andrew Lewis <freeghb@gmail.com>
* Andrey Akhmichin <sepulkarium45@yahoo.com>
* Bartek Rutkowski <r@robakdesign.com>
* Bernard Spil <brnrd@freebsd.org>
* Brendan Molloy <brendan+freebsd@bbqsrc.net>
* Denis Shaposhnikov <dsh@vlink.ru>
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pidgin: drop gconf references entirely
Given how the port evolved USE_GNOME=gconf2 was never set anyway,
just remove it entirely, and add the configure argument to ensure
it will never come back even by accident
INSTALLS_ICONS: retire the macro and rework the related dependencies
While here, make sure gtk-update-icon-cache is only on run dependency
where added as a dependency
Enforce gtk3 to depend on gtk-update-icon-cache (previously it was
inheriting the dependency)
net-im/pidgin: switch WWW: to https
Today Pidging developers announced switch to new version of their site
www.pidgin.im keeping old one as old.pidgin.im. New version redirects
plain HTTP requests to HTTPS, so switch the link to decrease delay.
Note that other links in our Ports tree already use HTTPS.
Add USES=xorg USES=gl, ports categories n
Add USES=xorg and USES=gl to ports in categories starting with 'n'.
While here, try to sprinkle other USES (mostly gnome and sdl) as needed.
Do not use post-stage. Use post-install instead.
The only reason to use post-stage is because the port needs to do
"things" at a later time, like some plist manipulation.
While there, fold post-install in do-install targets when they are
defined.
PR: 214780
Submitted by: mat
Exp-run by: antoine
Sponsored by: Absolight
Part 1 of adding USE_GNOME=intltool to ports that require it.
The reason for this is that in the GNOME 3.16 update, USE_GNOME gtk20 and
gtk30 don't pull intltool in anymore.
PR: 201980
Exp-run by: antoine@
Split devel/gettext in devel/gettext-runtime and devel/gettext-tools. The
first contains runtime libraries such as libintl and the latter contains
developer tools such as msgfmt. Ports that use gettext will usually need
a LIB_DEPENDS on gettext-runtime and a BUILD_DEPENDS on gettext-tools.
USES=gettext-runtime can be used to set a LIB/BUILD/RUN_DEPENDS on
devel/gettext-runtime and USES=gettext-tools can be used to set a
BUILD/RUN_DEPENDS on devel/gettext-tools. USES=gettext is now the same
as "USES=gettext-runtime gettext-tools" meaning a LIB_DEPENDS on
devel/gettext-runtime and a BUILD_DEPENDS on devel/gettext-tools.
Update gettext to 0.19.3.
Remove :oldver from converters/libiconv and devel/gettext-runtime. Leave
symlinks with the old library versions to avoid the need to bump
PORTREVISION on a large number of dependent ports. When most of the
dependent ports have had normal version updates, PORTREVISION can be
bumped on the remaining ones (low number) and the links can be removed.
Fix some ports that installed files in lib/locale instead of share/locale.
PR: 194038
Reviewed by: bapt
Exp-run: antoine
Approved by: portmgr (antoine)
Bump more ports that depend on libsqlite3.so:
- ports that set USE_SQLITE with the *_USE option helper
- ports that depend on libsqlite3 indirectly as reported by pkg rquery
Approved by: portmgr (implicit)
Convert net-im/libpurple (and slave ports net-im/finch and net-im/pidgin)
to "USES=libtool tar:bzip2". Bump PORTREVISION on all dependent ports
and modernise them as well (USES, LIB_DEPENDS, staging).
audio/pidgin-musictracker:
- Replace LIBS with LDFLAGS.
- Disable static plugin.
net/online-desktop: Remove obsolete patches.
net-im/mbpurple:
- Drop pkgconf dependency.
- Replace post-patch with MAKE_ARGS.
- Use standard do-build.
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Fix a bug where chat rooms/channels can appear multiple times. This is
taken from http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/14351 .
PR: 158814
Submitted by: Armin Pirkovitsch <armin@frozen-zone.org>
Update to 2.5.4.
* Add OPTIONS for all of the dynamic chat protocol modules
* Add plist support for WITHOUT_GNUTLS
* Add the myspace chat protocol
* Install the man pages
See http://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/ChangeLog for a list of release
changes.
PR: 130488
Submitted by: dougb
Bump portrevision due to upgrade of devel/gettext.
The affected ports are the ones with gettext as a run-dependency
according to ports/INDEX-7 (5007 of them) and the ones with USE_GETTEXT
in Makefile (29 of them).
PR: ports/124340
Submitted by: edwin@
Approved by: portmgr (pav)
* Update distinfo with new checksum. This distfile was re-rolled to fix a
configure script generation problem
* Add a missing dependency on xscrnsaver for pidgin [1]
Reported by: pointyhat via pav [1]
Presenting GNOME 2.20.1 and all related works for FreeBSD. The official
GNOME 2.20 release notes can be found at
http://www.gnome.org/start/2.20/notes/en/ . Beyond that, this update
includes the new GIMP 2.4 (courtesy of ahze).
The GNOME 2.20 update also includes a huge change in the FreeBSD GNOME
hierarchy. We are now using the more standard DATADIR of ${PREFIX}/share
rather than ${PREFIX}/share/gnome. The result is that fewer patches and
hacks are needed to port GNOME components to FreeBSD. This will mean some
user changes may be required, so be sure to read /usr/ports/UPDATING for
more details.
This release and the things we accomplished in it would not have been
possible without mezz's crazy idea to collapse DATADIR, and his persistence
to make it happen successfully. Ahze and pav also deserve thanks for
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Update to 2.1.1.
Yahoo:
* Added an account action to open your inbox in the yahoo prpl.
* Added support for Unicode status messages in Yahoo.
* Server-stored aliases for Yahoo. (John Moody)
* Fixed support for Yahoo! doodling.
* Limited support for MSN Messenger contacts
Bonjour:
* Bonjour plugin uses native Avahi instead of Howl
* Bonjour plugin supports Buddy Icons
XMPP:
* Only report conversation close when 'send typing notifications' preference is
turned on (Bob Rossi)
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Update to 2.1.0.
libpurple:
* Core changes to allow UIs to use second-granularity for scheduling. Pidgin and
Finch, which use the glib event loop, were changed to use
g_timeout_add_seconds() on glib >= 2.14 when possible. This allows glib to
better group our longer timers to increase power fficiency. (Arjan van de Ven
with Intel Corporation)
* No longer linkifies screennames containing @ signs in join/part notifications
in chats
* With the HTML logger, images in conversations are now saved. NOTE: Saved
images are not yet displayed when loading logs.
* Added support for QIP logs to the Log Reader plugin (Michael Shkutkov)
Pidgin:
* Ensure only one copy of Pidgin is running with a given configuration
directory. The net effect of this is that trying to start Pidgin a second time
will raise the buddy list. (Gabriel Schulhof)
* Undo capability in the conversation window
* The formatting toolbar has been reorganized to be more concise.
* A new status area has been added to the top of conversations to provide
additional detail about the buddy, including buddy icon, protocol and status
message.
* Show idle times in the buddy list as days, hours, seconds
Finch:
* There's support for workspaces now (details in the manpage)
* There's a new custom window manager, Irssi
* Some improvements for tab-completion, tooltip and the password entries
* Some bugs regarding search results fixed
* A new DBus-script to create a docklet for finch
* Support for showing empty groups in the buddy list (Eric Polino)
Update to the long-awaited 2.0.0. This has come a long way since Gaim
1.5.0, so be sure to checkout the new Pidgin website at
http://www.pidgin.im/ for all the exciting news.
Add pidgin after a repocopy from net-im/gaim-devel. Pidgin is the new name
for the Gaim instant messenger client. See http://www.pidgin.im/ for more
details on the name.
This is a direct upgrade for gaim-devel users from 2.0.0.b6 to 2.0.0.b7.
