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I'm delighted to see that the new version of pidgin on 0s2008 is far more integrated into the interface and has some new features (and doesn't crash!) It has a new-email-notification box but it doesn't allow you to set a sound to that event. There is patch on this page to do that :

http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/780

but i'm not sure how to use/apply/install a patch.

Thanks!

How Pidgin is better then the built in comunicator of the OS2008?
Don't they boyh have the same aplications? (Google talk, Aim, icq etc')

Nope, Pidgin can use more protocols like MSN, xmpp, sametime.....
the built in one can do some of these but only thought Jabber...

That's why Pidgin is a bit more "out of the box"

Same

Any help would be greatly appreciated! thanks

a patch is only going to work for you if you are building your own pidgin (read as: you have a maemo developer environment set up). Arguably, if you can get a maemo developer environment set up, you have experience with patch/diff.

However, in brief, you would run the 'patch' command against the source code of maemo-pidgin with the patch file as an argument and it would 'patch' the source of pidgin to supply the functionality you want. You can get a lot more detail by googling "patch" and "diff" together (first few links)

So, to summarize: you cannot 'install' a patch, you have to rebuild from source after applying the patch. The general hope with patches is that they get accepted into the source code and so become 'default' and then will become available in a later update of the software.

Hope this helps explain it.