@fraanka yeah, saving the screen name is one of the advantages of pecan... libpurple doesn't have that option, and I hacked around it.

However, when you reconnect the display name will be lost. I'll make sure that is fixed on the next version.

Also, you can install something from -devel, and immediately afterwards disable it. Although I think msn-pecan is now in -testing.

Anyway, maybe you should try to compare battery life with msn-pecan and with haze.