There are many different IM clients to choose from. Some, like Pidgin, are multi-protocol which means they support many different IM accounts (MSN, Yahoo, AOL, ICQ, etc). Others, like aMSN or Yahoo Messenger, are intended for use on one chat network only. emesene is an IM client for the MSN chat network. I have used Pidgin mainly in the past, have dabbled with aMSN, but I will be sticking with emesene for now on.
While emesene does lack the multi-protocol capabilities of Pidgin and the webcam support in aMSN, it makes up for it in it’s clean interface and usability. emesene offers smooth rendering combined with simplistic style. From the startup screen the similarities between emesene and MSN messenger are apparent:
After logging in, the main emesene screen looks similar to the MSN one as well:
Even the chat window looks very much like MSN Messenger:
I use emesene as a way to stay in contact with everyone I work with and I haven’t noticed any performance lags with emesene. File transfers work great between emesene and MSN Messenger and most of the features available in MSN Messenger are capable in emesene.
One hint though; if you are going to enable the plugin to show your chat buddies what you’re listening to, you will need to have python-dcop installed for the plugin to work. You can install this package from Synaptic or via the command line.
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