Friday 21 May 2010

Coming soon, to a Pidgin near you...

Direct connections for MSN! What do I mean? Just take a look at the screenshot below.

What's that? You don't see it? Just take a look at how fast it's going. Yes, that's right; it's not a pitiful 10KiB/s, but about an order of magnitude faster.

It all started with this little patch on trac. But it required a lot of work to get it going. I must have made at least 60 commits just fixing things and getting it to cooperate with aMSN and the official client. I think it should be good now, but you can always disable it in the Account options. It even makes buddy icon and custom emoticon loading faster.

Anyway, I promised I would say something about 2.7.1, and here you go. Direct connections will be in 2.7.1. In fact, I'm just about to push all the revisions.

5 comments:

Trillian said...

Wooohoo! At long last! That was pretty much the last thing that made me grumpy when using Pidgin. Good job, and I'm eager to experience sane transfer speeds :)

offtopictech said...

Thanks for implementing this. I'm often getting files sent to me over MSN and have to wait so long for them!

triton said...

Thanks!!! ;)

Unknown said...

It doesn't work Pidgin to Pidgin, still having 4 KB/s transfers. :(

Anon Libre said...

will it work? I'm still at 4-5 ><