Filed under : “All In One Messengers”

Empathy is a all-in-one IM client that supports multi-protocol services including Jabber, Gtalk, MSN, IRC, Salut, and all supported by Pidgin. Empathy consists of a rich set of reusable instant messaging widgets, and a GNOME client using those widgets.

Empathy Features :

# Multi-protocol: Jabber, Gtalk, MSN, IRC, Salut, and all supported by pidgin
# 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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