penk

I'm always on the lookout for new Jabber clients to work with. I've been using Psi for the most part over hte last year or two, but the ETERNAL wait for an upgrade is driving me bonkers. Not that I just want more features, but there's a bug in 0.9.3 that screws up adding new people to your roster. So I have to switch to Gnome-Jabber to add / modify my roster list. Yuck.

I came across JBother about 8 months ago, and gave it a quick try. It was good - a full Swing-based client that seemed to have a lot going for it, but it wasn't quite stable yet.

Now JBother is up to v0.8.9b, and so far, it looks like a winner. The configuration screens are clean and easy to figure out, the client is snappy and complete, and the addition of a 'plugins' function, where I found a workable 'systray' tool pretty much nailed it for me. I now have a working systray-docked client that lets me do everything Psi and gnome-jabber did, plus MUCH more.

JBother supports freefloating or docked windows with tabs, similar to Exodus. Conferencing, transport management, debugging windows, logging, adjustable themes - they're all in there.

If you use Jabber, give this one a try.

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