emesene is an instant messenger capable of connecting to various
networks and utilizing different graphical toolkits. Currently msn and
xmpp (jabber) are supported through papyon and SleekXMPP, which allows
emesene to connect to various IM services such as Windows Live
Messenger, GTalk, Facebook Chat, etc.
Finch is a multi-protocol instant messaging client. It is compatible with AIM
(Oscar and TOC protocols), ICQ, MSN Messenger, Yahoo, IRC, Jabber, Gadu-Gadu,
and Zephyr networks.
Finch users can log in to multiple accounts on multiple IM networks
simultaneously. This means that you can be chatting with friends on AOL
Instant Messenger, talking to a friend on Yahoo Messenger, and sitting in an
IRC channel all at the same time.
Finch supports many features of the various networks, such as file transfer
(coming soon), away messages, typing notification, and MSN window closing
notification. It also goes beyond that and provides many unique features. A
few popular features are Buddy Pounces, which give the ability to notify you,
send a message, play a sound, or run a program when a specific buddy goes away,
signs online, or returns from idle; and plugins, consisting of text
replacement, a buddy ticker, extended message notification, iconify on away,
and more.
(Adapted from the About Finch page.)
Fugu is a graphical client for the Gale instant messaging system. Its
features include: multiple screens for different subscription lists; a
detachable puff composer window; simple threading facilities for jumping to
the next and previous puff in a thread; searching for the next puff by this
author; clickable URLs; and thumbnail pictures depicting puff senders.
The goal of Gajim is to provide a full featured and easy to use Jabber
client. Gajim works nicely with GNOME, but does not require it to run.
It is released under the GNU General Public License.
FEATURES:
* Tabbed chat window
* Group chat support (with MUC protocol)
* Emoticons, Avatars, File transfer, Room Bookmarks
* Audio / video conferences
* Metacontacts Support
* Trayicon, Speller, extented chat history functionalities
* TLS, GPG and End-To-End encryption support (with SSL legacy support)
* Transport Registration support
* Service Discovery including Nodes
* Wikipedia, dictionary and search engine lookup
* Multiple accounts support
* DBus Capabilities
* XML Console
* Link local (bonjour / zeroconf), BOSH
* Other features via plugins
* Gajim is available in 25 languages
Kmess, the Live Messenger alternative!
With KMess, chatting with friends using Live Messenger
has never been so good - enjoy our great features:
* Display picture transfers
* Fast file transfers
* Custom emoticons, nudges and winks
* Offline messaging and chatting while invisible
* Rich and colorful chat styles and logs
* Chat logging and logs browsing
* Messenger Plus Live text coloring and formatting
* Live Mail notifications
* Block annoying custom emoticons
* Connectivity from behind firewalls and proxies
* Good-looking and friendly user interface
ICMP-Chat is a simple console-based chat that uses ICMP packets for
communication. The data is encrypted using the Rijndael-256 algorithm.
Jarl is a Perl/Tk application that allows one to access a Jabber
account and have full access to the Jabber IM system. It runs on any
platform that supports Perl and Tk, which at this time is most
platforms.
Jarl is going to be a full featured Jabber client that supports 100%
of the features that the Jabber IM offers.
This is a Skype Plugin for Pidgin/libpurple/Adium. It lets you view and
chat with all your Skype buddies from within Pidgin/Adium. You still
need Skype to be running to be able to use it, but it lets you keep a
consistent user interface and use all the other nifty Pidgin/Adium
plugins with it, like spell-checking or OTR encryption. -- Eion Robb
Profanity is a console based XMPP client written in C using ncurses and
libstrophe, inspired by Irssi
Pwytter is a multi-platform, standalone Twitter client written in Python
using Tkinter. It currently features:
- Switchable timelines: User (own tweets), Friends, Public, Replies,
Direct messages, Composite
- Clean and compact, themable user interface
- Full Unicode support for all languages
- Friends and Followers list display
- Easy Replies and Direct Messages
- In message URL detection
- Image and request caching for fast UI response
- Automatic and manual refresh
- Pwytter update autodetection