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Emesene Not Connecting? Here’s A Quick Fix

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The developers of popular third-party MSN client ‘emesene’ have warned that some users may experience login issues with the stable version of the client.

But fear not – there is a temporary fix available that should tide you over until the issue is sorted.

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Emesene 2.11.5 released: The good, the bad and the buggy

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A new release of instant messaging application Emesene 2 was pushed out a few days back and saw the application début the beginnings of a native QT interface.

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Emesene 2 needs testers

Luis Mariano Guerra of the Emesene development team has issued a call for people to begin testing the successor to popular MSN-based messaging application Emesene.

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Ambiance style Emesene tray icons

Last week we highlighted some gradiently-gorgeous (no, that is a word now) Ubuntu Radiance style replacement tray icons for everyone’s favourite MSN clone ‘Emesene’. Whilst many readers loved the simplicity behind them the author had stated no Ambiance-style version was planned. Thankfully another user, by the name of Jaapz, has taken on the mantle and churned [...]

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Radiance only Emesene tray icons

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I’ve been using Ubuntu’s Radiance theme a lot recently (having pretty much used Ambiance solidly since March this year) and I’m really loving the softness about it. Emesene is my preferred IM client for communicating via MSN (I do use Empathy when I also need to be signed in on Google Talk, Facebook & IRC. [...]

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7 days with Emesene 2 Pre-Alpha

Emesene2, the successor to the popular Windows Live Network-based Instant Messaging application ‘Emesene’, recently launched a testing PPA for foolhardy users to install and test the current pre-alpha builds. Emesene2 has been rewritten completely from scratch to make it it more flexible, featured and extensible. Some bonus niceties such as jabber support, Adium theme support, [...]

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Emesene2 Gets a PPA; test at your own risk

A PPA containing the early progress on Emesne2 has been made available for users wishing to try out the successor to the current Emesene 1.x releases. The developers hope to make Emesene2 that little bit more distinctive by not only re-writing the app from scratch but throwing in bonus niceties such as jabber support, adium theme support, better multimedia support – [...]

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How To Re-enable The Emesene Indicator Applet

I love indicator applets almost as much as Emesene, so when the latest revisions to the weekly PPA builds of the titular app disabled support for the application indicator I had to find a way to re-enable it. Thankfully it’s a snap to do and involves little more than uncommenting a few lines of a [...]

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Emesene adds Indicator Applet support

Instant messengering application Emesene has added indicator applet support for its’ tray icon. This will help Ubuntu 10.04 users and Emesene benefit from a consistent panel experience. Ahhh! The sweet smell of consistency! Article originally appeared on omgubuntu.co.uk

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Emesene 1.6.1 released; still the best msn client for linux

The latest, and likely last, version of MSN messaging ‘clone’ Emesene 1.x has been released. We’ve raved on and on and on and on about Emesene in the past and for good reason. If you’re solely an MSN kinda person it has everything you need – yes, including webcam support – all tucked up in [...]

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Weather Forecast Plugin For Emesene

Emesene Weather plug-in, perhaps not surprisingly, is a weather forecast plug-in for IM client Emesene. The plug-in inserts a basic weather forecast pane at the very bottom of the contact list window. The forecast displayed can be toggled between two “views” – a current overview and a weekly forecast (displayed below). As you would expect [...]

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Emesene Docky Integration Coming Soon

Docky integration with Emesene is just around the corner thanks to the work of the awesome Tom Cowell (who has already given us a plug-in for Emesene Messaging Menu integration) This helper is, as of yet, unavailable but given we both love Docky AND Emesene around these parts you’ll be hearing about it the second [...]

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Plugin To Let Emesene Use The Ubuntu Messaging Menu [Updated]

Give Emesene the power of Messaging Menu interaction. Kinda. By ‘kinda‘ I do, of course, mean that this plug-in is still in development and as such some things don’t quite work. Namely clicking on an alert brings up a ‘error‘ dialogue but does still raise the relevant chat window too. Plugin working with the MessagingMenu [...]

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Emesene 1.6 Released, What’s New?

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Instant Messaging client ‘Emesene’ slipped a new release out on Monday but what’s new in it? Aside from bug fixes all round – which even the team themselves admit “we’re too lazy to write ‘em all” – there are a few GUI changes that you’ll likely come across… New Preferences Windows We blogged about this [...]

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Emesene Gets A New Preferences Window, Adds Easy Install Of Themes

The ‘Preferences’ menu of popular MSN messaging client ‘Emesene’ has received a thorough makeover – and looks much the better for it! Below is a brief over-view of whats changed and whats new. New Style Orientating itself horizontaly over the previous vertical menus, the window plays much nicer with smaller netbook-esque displays. The left-hand pane [...]

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