ral Posted December 2, 2002 Report Share Posted December 2, 2002 Wich plugin should I use, the ICQ pluggin or the AOL/ICQ pluggin? (sorry about the typo earlier). Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronin Posted December 2, 2002 Report Share Posted December 2, 2002 Neither. No plugins are needed for Gaim to connect to ICQ. It installs ready to connect. MSN on the other hand needs a plugin. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoulSe Posted December 2, 2002 Report Share Posted December 2, 2002 I tried both plugins and found them both to work identically, although in theory the straight ICQ plugin has been written specifically for the job and only the job and should therefore do it better. Gaim is great, but I wish it would import my "buddy" list from the icq servers, like it does for MSN connections... I love chatting to people on 3 different systems at once though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ral Posted December 2, 2002 Author Report Share Posted December 2, 2002 Thanks guys. I was wondering if it was working. Been off ICQ for a year and a half. I guess my old contacts are no longer active. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smigs Posted December 2, 2002 Report Share Posted December 2, 2002 Use AIM/ICQ, it uses the Oscar protocol which ICQ converted to sometime after aol purchased it. The old ICQ protocol (the ICQ plugin) still works but is unreilable at times. Smigs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DOlson Posted December 3, 2002 Report Share Posted December 3, 2002 Yeah, I think it's in the FAQ on the Gaim website... Just use the default. Not the ICQ plugin, which should be removed... I don't know why they haven't taken it out yet. And there are differences between the two. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ral Posted December 3, 2002 Author Report Share Posted December 3, 2002 Thanks DOlsen...I read the FAQ, but was not sure it was correct because I used both pluggin's and could not seem to chat with anybdy on my old ICQ list. Was able to chat a few hours ago though :) with the ICQ/AOL default. I guess after a year my old ICQ list is no longer current (or maybe they moved on to another IM). I like Yahoo best, because they have a LInux version. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fuzzylizard Posted December 3, 2002 Report Share Posted December 3, 2002 Gaim is great, but I wish it would import my "buddy" list from the icq servers, like it does for MSN connections... I love chatting to people on 3 different systems at once though. For ICQ, your contacts are stored in a file on your computer and not with a central server. Therefore, there is no way of importing contacts. One thing I don't like about ICQ. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoulSe Posted December 3, 2002 Report Share Posted December 3, 2002 Nope, that only applies to no-ICQ contacts. When I used ICQ with windoze at the office it would keep my contacts on the server. I know this because I've installed fresh on machines I've never used before and had my contacts. Also, if you use go.icq.com (the java icq client) your contacts are there.. It has been this way since the release of ICQ 2002a Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fuzzylizard Posted December 3, 2002 Report Share Posted December 3, 2002 Interesting, I have used several different clients that all support ICQ and have never had my contacts just appear a la MSN. Can EveryBuddy download contacts from the ICQ server? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ral Posted December 3, 2002 Author Report Share Posted December 3, 2002 Same thing Fuzzylizard said. I do now that we used to use ICQ on a LAN for messaging. Maybe it can do this when deployed on a LAN. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smigs Posted December 3, 2002 Report Share Posted December 3, 2002 the official ICQ clients do store buddys on the server, I think it's a pretty recent feature, but I don't know of any unofficial clients that do this :) Smigs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Robitaille20 Posted December 19, 2002 Report Share Posted December 19, 2002 I do know of an unofficial client that WILL pull down your contact list if you have used some of the latest ICQ clients on a Doze box. I can't get it to work on Mandrake, but it comes with RedHat. It's called GnomeICU. You can download it at http://gnomeicu.sourceforge.net If anyone can get it working (I'm a real newbie so it's probably my fault) please post here to explain how.....I CANNOT STAND gaim! Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest UrbanSlayer Posted December 19, 2002 Report Share Posted December 19, 2002 I use Licq at home, and there is a setting in the options menu that allows you to pull the ICQ contacts off the server. You might have to update the user info manually, but it works. Works fine on Mandrake. http://www.licq.org/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zero0w Posted December 19, 2002 Report Share Posted December 19, 2002 Try the SIM-ICQ, support the ICQ 2001 protocol (getting contact list from servers) and pretty decent: http://sim-icq.sourceforge.net/ I came across this in a recent KDE release digest. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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