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 a gorgeous interface. (Take that aMSN!)

With efforts soon to refocus on Emesene 2, which amongst other things will add more protocol support and adium theme support, this release is largely a bugfix release to tide the application over for a little while longer.

Two notable additions: –

  • MSN Roaming is fixed; avatar, nickname, status all synced with MSN proper
  • Revamped avatar chooser

Download

This release may or may not make it into the Lucid repos in time so you may wish to add the following PPA or install from the following .deb files.

Lucid:

  • emesene_1.6+r1971~ppalucid1_amd64.deb
  • emesene_1.6+r1971~ppalucid1_i386.deb

    • Karmic:

  • emesene_1.6+r1971~ppakarmic1_amd64.deb
  • emesene_1.6+r1971~ppakarmic1_i386.deb

    • Jaunty:

  • emesene_1.6+r1971~ppajaunty1_amd64.deb
  • emesene_1.6+r1971~ppajaunty1_i386.deb

    • PPA: https://launchpad.net/~bjfs/+archive/ppa

    Alternatively you can download the following source folder and run it from the folder by double clicking on the Emesene script inside.

    Source: http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/emesene/emesene-1.6.1/emesene-1.6.1.tar.gz?

    Thanks to Dudu

    Article originally appeared on omgubuntu.co.uk
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