[OTR-users] otr support in gajim?

[Ananda Samaddar]

On Sun, 26 Oct 2008 20:55:32 +0100
Jonathan Schleifer <js-otrim at webkeks.org> wrote:

> 
> OTR was removed from Gajim because we consider the current libotr API
> unusably broken. It was not possible to have reliable message delivery
> when libotr was used, it silently dropped messages etc. The current
> API requires to pass every message to libotr, whether it's an OTR
> session or not. We tried some workarounds, until we decided to drop
> OTR support. We have GPG and ESessions anyway, so just try to
> convince your chat partner of XMPP, then you can use those :).
> 
> We are currently hoping that libotr4 will fix
> those issues and might reconsider to revive the OTR support then.
> 
> And there is a branch that still has OTR support (just Google for it)
> - however, it is totally unsupport, don't expect any support from the
> developers if it fails.
> 

I hope OTR makes its way back into Gajim.  OTR is a really nice system
and Gajim is a really nice Jabber client (it's like Pidgin but done
properly IMO). The perfect match really.

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