Empathy (software)
Empathy is (English for empathy, empathy ) is a free instant messaging client. In addition, there is a toolkit of a series of re-usable user interface elements for the implementation of instant messaging functionality in applications. Empathy is being developed as part of the Telepathy project. He is the official instant messaging client of the GNOME project.
Functions
Empathy as a toolkit provides elements for editing user accounts, contact lists, private and group chats, viewing call logs and some other functions. It is based on GTK and integrates with Nokia's Mission Control account management system and system services such as the Network Manager.
As part of the reference implementation of the specified by freedesktop.org Telepathy it represents the client, which form the core of the program library libempathy. He uses the user interface and other portions of the gossip Telepathy reference implementation, the Connection Manager to communicate with various instant messaging networks. With Empathy no form of advanced end-to -end encryption is possible, as they allow many other messenger by Off- the-Record Messaging ( OTR). However, he is supported in addition to Pidgin, Gajim and Jitsi one of the few clients that the video and audio chat via the XMPP protocol.
Empathy in Ubuntu 9.10 broke the Messenger client Pidgin as the default IM program ( Pidgin will continue to be packaged for Ubuntu and can be installed from the repositories ).