an IM client that's not totally broken?

[Florin Andrei]

Installed Ubuntu 9.10 when it came out. Tried to use Empathy, but 
quickly gave up: new messages were barely noticeable. It's like the 
application tries really hard to hide new messages from me. Horrible.

Went back to Pidgin, which is slightly better, but still broken. New 
messages are minimized by default. I am still missing communications, 
people may be thinking I ignore them. :-( All this due to a stupid 
policy of minimizing new messages.

How can I modify this setting and allow new IM messages to pop-up as 
normal windows? (NOT minimized)

This is very frustrating.

-- 
Florin Andrei
http://florin.myip.org/