Meanwhile Bug

Pidgin, formerly GAIM, is a decent universal IM client. Part of its attractiveness its support for Sametime, a Lotus software application. The Meanwhile plug-in for Pidgin provides access to the Sametime protocol. However, in newer versions of the Sametime server, Meanwhile users were unable to see some people on their lists as being logged in, even though they were. This is a known bug. Oddly enough, even after I upgraded to Pidgin 2.3.1, the bad library remained, so I went looking for another fix.