Facebook’s XMPP/Jabber integration is not quite completed yet, but meanwhile you can use Facebook from within Pidgin.This plugin isn’t only for pidgin, but other libpurple messengers (perhaps even Adium and other projects). It syncs with Facebook Chat IM service without the necessity of an API key. Though its relatively stable, there are some bugs like the friend does not appear online or replies are delayed, etc. But a very good idea, at any rate. It’s clearly a work in progress.
One of the Facebook plugin features that I really enjoy is the ability to set your facebook status through Pidgins status.
The pros of using the plugin are pretty obvious – all your contacts are integrated to one place on Pidgin. That equates to one less reason to log directly into Facebook and this in turn saves some time and makes you a bit more more productive. Pidgin keeps logs of all IM conversations, which is handy if you want records of your conversations kept.
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The plugin can perform tasks besides send/receive messages, including the adding and removing of friends, having your facebook notifications be received from Pidgin.
Installation is simple on Debian based distros since they provide .deb package. If you’d like to install the the plugin manually, you would usually copy one of the .so files into /usr/lib/purple-2/ or /usr/lib/pidgin/ (for Mamemo based operating systems). You can also built from source typing
sudo make libfacebook.so
and
sudo make install to point the install to the right directory.
You can get the plugin here: http://code.google.com/p/pidgin-facebookchat/
Edit: Also note there’s an icon pack which can be downloaded here: http://pidgin-facebookchat.googlecode.com/files/facebook_icons.zip. Extract facebook_icons.zip to ‘/usr/share/pixmaps/pidgin/protocols’. Though, this blog no longer caters to Windows users, I can only speculate Windows may have a similar directory for the icon pack, but in in ‘C:\Program Files\’ (\Pidgin) which is roughly the equalivent of /usr/share.
As u hv mentioned above, it if full of bugs….
Although my frens r replyin me I am unab;e to receive it…….
It is gud plugin but needs more attention……..
It is a good plugin, can increase your trafiic.