Empathy

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Empathy

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Contact list in Empathy
Contact list in Empathy
Basic data

Maintainer Xavier Claessens
developer GNOME project
Publishing year March 16, 2007
Current  version 3.12.12
(May 13, 2016)
operating system Unixoids
programming language C.
category Instant messenger
License GPL ( Free Software )
German speaking Yes
live.gnome.org/Empathy

Empathy ( english for empathy , empathy ) is a free instant messaging - client . In addition, it is a GUI toolkit with a number of reusable user interface elements for implementing instant messaging functionalities in programs. Empathy is being developed as part of the Telepathy project. It is the official instant messaging client of the Gnome project.

Functions

As a toolkit, Empathy offers elements for editing user accounts, contact lists, private and group chats, viewing call logs and a number of other functions. It builds on GTK + and integrates with Nokia's account management system Mission Control and system services such as NetworkManager .

As part of the reference implementation of the telepathy specified by freedesktop.org , it represents the client, which essentially consists of the libempathy program library . It uses the Gossip user interface and other parts of the Telepathy reference implementation, the connection managers, to communicate with various instant messaging networks. With Empathy, no form of advanced end-to-end encryption is possible, as is possible with many other messengers using Off-the-Record Messaging (OTR). In contrast, along with Pidgin , Gajim and Jitsi, it is one of the few clients that supports video and audio chat via the XMPP protocol.

Empathy replaced the messenger client Pidgin as the standard IM program in Ubuntu 9.10 (Pidgin is still packaged for Ubuntu and can be installed later via the package sources).

Supported protocols

Web links

Commons : Empathy  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ empathy.doap. In: GNOME Git Repository. Retrieved April 19, 2017 (English).
  2. ↑ Empathy changelog .
  3. ↑ Guillaume Desmottes: December 3, 2012. In: GNOME Git Repository. May 13, 2016, accessed April 19, 2017 .
  4. ↑ github.com .
  5. ^ The empathy Open Source Project on Open Hub: Languages ​​Page . In: Open Hub . (accessed October 30, 2018).
  6. ^ Protocols Support. Protocol features supported by telepathy implementations. In: freedesktop.org Wiki. June 19, 2016, accessed April 19, 2017 .