GAIM Becomes Pidgin

After a long, and unfortunately secret debate (as we could not say why we were looking at a name change, we ended up just doing this ourselves), we settled on the name “Pidgin” for gaim itself, “libpurple” for libgaim (which, as of 2.0.0 beta6, exists), and “Finch” for gaim-text. Yes, the spelling of “Pidgin” is intentional.

At first I thought this might be a long overdue April Fools joke, but it was no such thing. I’ve been a GAIM user for a few years now and have come to enjoy and rely on it quite a bit. It’s sad to see it’s original name go.

Source: Official Site