I'm still on Gajim 1.3.3 and simply can't upgrade because of the lack of the history manager (separate window to view chatlogs). I'm hoping that it will come back someday and that the old version I'm using will work a bit longer.

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@walruslifestyle nobody is forcing you to update! But Gajim's code is evolving, and it makes use of newer Python features. Latest Gajim requires Python 3.10 (released Oct. 2021).

If your distribution doesn't ship Python 3.10, you can install Gajim via Flatpak as well: flathub.org/apps/org.gajim.Gaj…

@walruslifestyle omemo-dr is not part of Gajim 1.7.3, but a change which hasn't been released yet (nightly). If this dependency is one of a Gajim 1.7.3 package, then it's a packaging issue. Please let us know which Linux distro are you using, so we can contact the package maintainer. 👍

Regarding Flatpak: Gajim 1.8 will include the OMEMO plugin. For older versions, check out this guide on how to install plugins via Flatpak: dev.gajim.org/gajim/gajim/-/tr…

@walruslifestyle you must be using Gajim nightly then, because Ubuntu 22.04 only offers Gajim 1.3.3. Nightlies might break for unforeseen reasons, since they are not stable. Ubuntu 22.04 does not offer all dependencies Gajim nightly needs.

Syntax Highlighting and URL Image Preview plugins have been integrated into Gajim and thus are both available. Gajim's LaTeX plugin has been discontinued due to security concerns.

@hund I'm not a teenager, I don't like discord, but I nevertheless very much appreciate the "workspaces" feature of gajim.

I follow a lot of MUCs, and I have a lot of contacts because I use bridges. Organising chats by theme (family/work/music/dev/nerdities/...) has been extremely useful for me and I miss workspaces in other xmpp clients now.

@raspbeguy

There is a (large) pad with ideas on how to standardize workspaces somewhere on the internet, and it's not as trivial as it may sound at first.