Projects

Pidgin

Pidgin is an instant messaging program for Windows, Linux, BSD, and other Unixes. You can talk to your friends using AIM, ICQ, Jabber/XMPP, MSN Messenger, Yahoo!, Bonjour, Gadu-Gadu, IRC, Novell GroupWise Messenger, QQ, Lotus Sametime, SILC, SIMPLE, and Zephyr. Pidgin can log in to multiple ... [More] accounts on multiple IM networks simultaneously. This means that you can be chatting with friends on AIM, talking to a friend on Yahoo Messenger, and sitting in an IRC channel all at the same time. Pidgin supports many features of the various networks, such as file transfer, away messages, and typing notification. It also goes beyond that and provides many unique features. [Previously known as "Gaim".] [Less]

irssi

Irssi is a terminal based IRC client for UNIX systems. It also supports SILC and ICB protocols via plugins.

X-Chat

XChat is a fully-featured graphical IRC client using the GTK toolkit. It can be compiled to use GNOME and Perl scripting.

Kopete IM Client (KDE)

claimed by KDE

Kopete is a flexible and extendable multiple protocol instant messaging system designed as a plugin-based system. All protocols are plugins and allow modular installation, configuration, and usage without the main application knowing anything about the plugin being loaded. The goal of Kopete is to ... [More] provide users with a standard and easy to use interface between all of their instant messaging systems, but at the same time also providing developers with the ease of writing plugins to support a new protocol. The core Kopete development team provides a handful of plugins that most users can use, in addition to templates for new developers to base a plugin on. [Less]

Psi

Psi is a leading instant messaging / real-time communications client for the Jabber network (using the XMPP protocol). It is cross platform, available for Windows, Mac OS X and X11 (Linux, BSD, Solaris etc.) platforms. It uses the Qt library. It aims to be (and is famous for being) standards ... [More] compliant and stable. It is also at the cutting edge of XMPP development, with several of the authors very actively involved in the XMPP standards extension process. [Less]

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. ... [More] libempathy-gtk is a set of powerful widgets that can be embeded into any GNOME application. [Less]

XChat-GNOME

XChat-GNOME is a new frontend to the popular X-Chat IRC client which is designed with the user interface foremost in mind. Historically, the OSS desktop has been steadily improving in usability, accessibility, and general slickness, yet the world of IRC clients has not kept up. GNOME’s ... [More] philosophy in terms of user interfaces has been progressing towards presenting the user with few options and sane defaults. The authors decided that the GTK+ frontend provided excessive customizability without sufficient organization, which lead to clutter and confusion. As such, XChat-GNOME was born, and is gaining popularity as an IRC client for people who care more about chatting than tweaking settings. If anyone is interested in helping out with the project, stop by #xchat-gnome on irc.freenode.net. [Less]

Supybot

Supybot is a cross-platform IRC bot written in Python, known to run anywhere Python runs, which includes all *nices, and Windows. 1. Supybot is actively developed. 2. Supybot offers nested commands. 3. Supybot has a powerful and flexible capability system for handling security. 4. ... [More] Supybot includes many plugins , and has many more ripe for the picking on this very website. 5. Supybot supports multiple servers. 6. Supybot supports multiple channels. 7. Supybot is user-friendly. 8. Supybot is developer-friendly. 9. Supybot is stable. The stability of a Supybot is only limited by the uptime of the host it runs on. Multi-month uptimes are the norm, rather than the exception. 10. Supybot is here, now. [Less]

WeeChat

WeeChat (Wee Enhanced Environment for Chat) is a fast and light chat client for many operating systems. Everything can be done with a keyboard, it is customizable and extensible with scripts. It is compliant with RFCs 1459, 2810, 2811, 2812, 2813.

emesene

emesene is a platform independent instant messaging client for the Windows Live Messenger (tm) network. emesene is distributed free of charge under the GNU General Public License 2 or any later version. emesene most interesting features are: * Clean and easy to use Interface? with no ... [More] ads * File transfers (almost done) * Custom emoticons sending/receiving/stealing * Tabbed chatting * Multilingual interface * Great customization * Plugins support * Messenger Plus! formatting tags support * Powerful Chat logging * All the other basic Windows Live Messenger features [Less]