emesene

emesene is an open source instant messaging client, and is a "clone" of Windows Live Messenger.

Its goal is to replicate the functions of the official Windows Live client in simpler, cleaner and easier to use interface.

There are a variety of GUI themes available including MBISM, Live theme, and MSN theme.

The program is written using Python and GTK+.

emesene 2.12.1

Price Free to download Size 9.9MB License GNU GPL v2 Developer Luis Mariano Guerra and others Website www.emesene.org System Requirements GTK+ version 2.8.x  Other dependencies include: pygtk, python2.4 Support Sites: emesene forum, Wiki, Blog, SourceForge Project Page Selected Reviews:

Features include:

• Clean and easy to use GUI
• Tabbed chat windows
• Custom emoticons
• File transfer
• Offline messaging
• Personal messages
• Music player personal messages
• Nudges
• Webcam chat support
• Contact list retrieval from server
• Customization
• Themes
• Smileys
• Sounds
• GUI
• Conversation format
• Plugins (YouTube, songs, MSN Premium, Gmail checker, POP3 mail checker, spell checker, last.fm, Wikipedia. XKCD, Last Said, Countdown and others)
• MSN Plus!
• LaTeX support
• Emoticon themes
• Chat logging
• Multilingual GUI

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Last Updated Monday, February 06 2012 @ 06:57 AM EST