pjaiku - a cross platform jaiku client
If you are a Jaiku user and you don’t like any of the other external alternatives (windows/mac clients) for your OS, or if you are a GNU/Linux user, pjaiku might be what you’re looking for. But beware: it’s still a very young project, and it’s on heavy development. There are no distro packages yet, so if you don’t mind solving it’s dependencies by hand and manually extracting it (you just have to extract and run), then it’s no big deal. On Ubuntu, you need the packages python-simplejson and python-qt4. And if you can help developing it (or at least package it), better yet.
By the way, I’ve tried using Jaiku with imified and anothr, but imified never really worked for me, and anothr is just…weird. The damned thing only updates when it feels like doing so, and having to type the command for reading new items every now and then, defeats the purpose.
And if you are a Jaiku user as well, here I am.
Oh and I almost forgot: thanks a lot to it’s sole developer for the attention he’s been paying to my suggestions :)
July 2nd, 2007 at 3:51 pm
Ora a?? est?? o que eu procurava. Nice tip ;)
July 4th, 2007 at 5:33 pm
BTW the Jaiku IM access beta works perfectly. I hope it will scale well when it’s available to all. Meanwhile, I think FeedCrier is a bit more sane than Anothr’s weird output, but it has been a bit unreliable lately, often offline
July 4th, 2007 at 7:31 pm
Isn’t that beta closed ? I haven’t had an opportunity to try that. I loved the twitter IM bot when it worked fine, but with jaiku things are a little different (i don’t see an IM bot displaying flickr pics thumbnails), so even if that comes out nice, i’ll probably stick to pjaiku.
July 4th, 2007 at 7:39 pm
Yes, the beta is closed now, they invited people to join a while ago, and closed it when they had enough testers. You’re right about pjaiku vs. Jabber bots though, I didn’t even think of the graphical aspect of it. I think i’ll try pjaiku on the desktop and only enable the jabber bot when away (for the mobile phone’s jabber client).
July 4th, 2007 at 7:43 pm
Now that might be handy :)