Since I’m sure the Pidgin developers read this blog 
Pidgin is great. Being able to IM all my friends on all the networks from my Linux machine is a Godsend. Only problem is, file transfer is very iffy. Sometimes it works, depending on the network and whether the person on the other end is using the network’s official client or not.
Solution: we need a Pidgin plugin that takes over the file transfer functions. If you try to share a file, this plugin would instead upload it to a site such as senduit, and stick the link to your file in an outgoing message to the recipient. Then the other person just needs to click the link to get your file. Saves a lot of time over the alternative email method – not to mention mostly circumventing file-size restrictions.
I’m not overly familiar with the Pidgin architecture, but it would be great if this plugin could respond to file transfer requests from another person with a link to senduit, as well.
Any takers? 
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File transfer on Pidgin SUCKS. That is all.