emesene – instant messaging client

Last Updated on July 10, 2021

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+.

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.

Website: sourceforge.net/projects/emesene
Support:
Developer: Luis Mariano Guerra and others
License: GNU GPL v2

emesene is written in C and Python. Learn C with our recommended free books and free tutorials. Learn Python with our recommended free books and free tutorials.

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