FWIW, conversations originated from Pidgin do show up in chat history in the Hangouts interface. Or at least that's been my experience. I agree that sync in the

FWIW, conversations originated from Pidgin do show up in chat history in the Hangouts interface. Or at least that's been my experience. I agree that sync in the other direction (to Pidgin), and support for offline messages, would be really useful. I did see a reverse-engineered Hangouts client at some point; does anyone know if this works well enough?