Meh. I read the lengthy wait(s) and long workarounds. Let's put it this way...

I'm happy the fixes worked for you. Search, I was left out in the cold for a few days and that turned me off. I would not want something like that to be in the hands of the mainstream, so I went elsewhere.

It's my prerogative to do so. It's yours to support the fixes that suit your needs. Having it bomb on me for as long as it did and the workaround was some obscure download is counter-intuitive to something that actually wants to be mainstream.

The updates? Where? The beta went from 2.3 to 2.7, right? And you still have to download the most recent libpurple, right?

I don't like to jump through that many hoops all of the time and the updates don't reflect what you just said. You have to admin your machine to do that. And most people simply don't take the time to admin their machine.

Bah. Nevermind. Whatever I say will invariably be ignored. Glad the fixes worked for you. Search... they didn't work for me initially. I had to wait over a month for something to finally work.

That's too long.

And it still doesn't support video or Skype. No update for that either.