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People coming from windows are used to their IM apps showing a notification window when something noteworthy happens. Pidgin plays a sound but shows nothing, which can be confusing to some users -where did that beep come from?- and leave the feeling that it's an inferior product compared with their previous IM client.

I think that pidgin-libnotify should be installed and active by default in fresh ubuntu installs. Pidgin-libnotify is a Pidgin plugin that shows events -buddies logging in or out, new messages...- using libnotify. It takes barely 14k and offers information that is familiar to newcomers and useful for everyday users, and perfectly fits Pidgin sounds, in a fashion
that is integrated with gnome because it resembles the way that many other gnome apps show their important info - that is, through libnotify.

Synaptic needs some improvements, like adding repositories, etc.