Empathy
Empathy consists of a
rich set of reusable instant messaging widgets, and a GNOME
client using those widgets. It uses Telepathy and Nokia's Mission
Control, and reuses Gossip's UI.
The main goal is to permit desktop integration by providing
libempathy and libempathy-gtk libraries. libempathy-gtk is a set of
powerful widgets that can be embeded into any GNOME
application.
Empathy has been included in the GNOME
desktop since version 2.24.
Features include:
- Multi-protocol: Google Talk (Jabber/XMPP), MSN, IRC, Salut,
AIM, Facebook, Yahoo!, Gadu Gadu, Groupwise, ICQ and QQ, and all
supported by Pidgin
- File transfer for XMPP, and local networks
- Voice and video call using SIP, XMPP and Google Talk
- IRC support
- Conversation theming
- Account editor (specialized UI for most protocols)
- Auto away and extended away using gnome-screensaver
- Auto re-connect using Network Manager
- Private and group chat (with smileys, spellcheck)
- Powerful theme engine for chats
- Log conversations, view/search in logs and prepend logs in
new chats
- Adding new contacts and viewing/editing contact information
- Voice and Video call using SIP and Jingle
- Python bindings for libempathy and libempathy-gtk
- Collaborative work using Tubes
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