so I got tired of using pidgin, and I try to use gyachi, which is really good because it can show my offline buddies (so they cannot play hide and seek with me, if you know what I mean). It’s a bit hard for me to find suitable gyachi package, but after much time looking into google I came across this gyachi version that is suitable for ubuntu hardy heron. here is the link
and here is the screenshot
Jacobian 