Comment 56 for bug 112511

I'd like to interject that I don't think a simple backport of pidgin is possible. Yes, I know that it works fine - I'm using it myself - but there are integration problems. nautilus-sendto doesn't support pidgin because it has different dbus paths than gaim, for instance. There are also a large number of plugins that need to be backported with pidgin.

If people really want a backport either an unofficial backport (as some have already posted) or a backport which can be installed side-by-side with gaim would be best.