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]

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]

KMess

KMess is an alternative MSN Messenger / WLM chat client for Linux. It allows Linux users to chat with friends who use MSN Messenger in Windows or Mac OS. The strength of KMess is its integration with the KDE desktop environment, focus on MSN Messenger specific features and an easy-to-use interface.

aMSN

aMSN is a Tcl/Tk client for MSN Messenger. Its features include multi-language support, smileys, logging, multi-profiles support, email notification, customizable sounds, group management, file transfers with NAT support, and proxy support. It is a Windows Live Messenger look alike with extra features.

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]

ekg2

Plugin based multi-IM communicator. ncurses or gtk2 (in progress) based GUI. Support for different protocols: irc, jabber (including gmail), gg (gadu-gadu largest polish IM), tlen, nntp (read only).

Coccinella

Coccinella is a free and open-source cross-platform communication tool with a built-in whiteboard for improved collaboration with other people.

Kadu

Kadu is a dynamically evolving instant messenger compatible with the Gadu-Gadu and XMPP protocols. It can be run on all platforms supporting the Qt toolkit.