Last Updated on: 17th November 2023, 07:26 pm
Web site: gajim.org
Category: Network
Subcategory: Instant Messenger
Platform: BSD, Linux, Windows
License: GPL
Interface: GUI
First release: May 21, 2004
Gajim – a full featured and easy to use XMPP/Jabber client which works nicely with GNOME, but does not require it to run. Jabber allows users to use gates for other services, called transports, and using Gajim you can connect with users via Tlen, Gadu-Gadu, AIM or ICQ. It also supports RSS and ATOM feeds and can send SMS messages to mobile phones.
The main features are:
– Tabbed chat window and single window modes
– Group chat support (with Multi-User Chat protocol), invitation, chat to group chat transformation, minimize group chat to roster
– Emoticons, avatars, PEP (user activity, mood and tune)
– Audio / video conferences
– File transfer, room bookmarks
– Metacontacts support
– Trayicon, speller, extended chat history functionalities
– TLS, GPG and End-To-End encryption support (with SSL legacy support)
– Transport registration support
– Service discovery including nodes, user search
– Wikipedia, dictionary and search engine lookup
– Multiple accounts support
– DBus capabilities. Read more information
– XML console
– Link local (bonjour / zeroconf), BOSH
– Other features via plugins
– Gajim is available in 29 languages: Basque, Belarusian, Brasilian, British, Bulgarian, Chinese (simplified), Croatian, Czech, Danish, English, Esperanto, French, Galician, German, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Kazakh, Lithuanian, Norwegian (Bokmål), Polish, Russian, Serbian, Spanish, Slovak, Swedish, Turkish and Ukrainian.