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GTKYahoo - GTK Yahoo Pager Client


GTKyahoo project was closed down. There will be no further updates here.

Intro

GTKYahoo is a GPL'd GTK+ based yahoo pager client for unix. I wrote this for a couple of reasons - hating windows, wanting to learn GTK+, and because the Java client is highly irritating and seems extremely buggy. (I.e. try resizing a chat window)

I am using the current version on a daily basis without any problems. New features and improvements are being added constantly. Take a look at the ChangeLog for more details.

GTKYahoo has a number of features not available in the Windows or Java versions of the pager, including an auto-reply (answering machine) feature and automatic forwarding of incoming messages via email.

There is a mailing list set up for announcements, etc. Please sign up and hear about new developments.

GtkYahoo 0.18.2 was released with some new features and capabilities. Check out the ChangeLog for details.

New Features / bug fixes

GtkYahoo 0.18.1 was released with some new features and capabilities. Check out the ChangeLog for details.

New Features

GtkYahoo 0.18 was released with several new features and capabilities. Check out the ChangeLog for details.

GtkYahoo 0.17 was released with tons of new features and capabilities. Check out the ChangeLog for details.

New Features

Almost too many changes to list (it's been way too long since the last release.

This is the first release since moving GtkYahoo to SourceForge and splitting libyahoo out as a seperate library.

Download Area

Upcoming Features

Requirements

It requires gtk+ 1.2.x. I have received reports that it works on quite a number of different platforms.

Feel free to mirror these web pages or the sources.

Programmer Notes

The libyahoo subdirectory contains a protocol support library for yahoo messenger that is licensed under the GPL. Feel free to take it an use it in your own programs. However, please get it from the sourceforge project for libyahoo, as that will be the most current.

The libyahoo library is originally based on Doug Winslow's yppro2.c prototype pager code.

Just as a disclaimer - this program is not supported/sponsored/etc by Yahoo! in any way.

Screenshots

These are some old screenshots that are really out of date.

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