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Empathy is an instant messaging client which supports text, voice, video, file transfers, and inter-application communication over various IM protocols.
Empathy also provides a collection of re-usable Graphical User Interface widgets for developing instant messaging clients for the GNOME desktop. It is written as extension to the Telepathy framework, for connecting to different instant messaging networks with a unified user interface.
Empathy has been included in the GNOME desktop since version 2.24[1][2]. Beginning with Ubuntu 9.10 and Fedora 12, it has replaced Pidgin as the default messenger in Ubuntu and Fedora. Unlike Pidgin and clients using off-the-record messaging (OTR), Empathy lacks any facility for enabling privacy and security through deniable encryption. However, work to add encryption capabilities to certain protocols natively began in 2009.[3]
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- Support for multiple protocols:
- Auto away and extended away using gnome-screensaver
- Auto re-connect using NetworkManager
- Private and group chat with smileys and spell checking
- Theme engine for conversation windows
- Log conversations, view / search in logs and prepend logs in new chats
- Voice and video calls using SIP, MSN and XMPP (including support for Google Talk voice calls)
- File transfer for XMPP
- Geolocation of contacts (can display contacts on a map)
- Python bindings for libempathy and libempathy-gtk
- Collaborative work using Tubes
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