Empathy

Empathy is an instant-messaging(chat) program which supports text, voice, video, file transfers, and inter-application communication(tubes) over many different protocols(AIM, MSN, Google/Jabber, Facebook, SIP, yahoo, etc).

It consists of a rich set of reusable instant messaging widgets, and a GNOME GUI 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. libempathy-gtk is a set of powerful widgets that can be embeded into any GNOME application.

Current features

• Multi-protocol: Jabber, Gtalk, MSN, IRC, Salut, and all supported by pidgin
• File transfer for XMPP,Salut

• Voice and Video call using SIP and XMPP (including support for Google Talk voice calls)

• Powerful theme engine for chats (see list of supported Adium themes)

• Geolocalisation of contacts (Display contacts on a map)
• Private and group chat (with smileys, spellcheck)

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• Log conversations, view/search in logs and prepend logs in new chats
• Auto away and extended away using gnome-screensaver
• Auto re-connect using Network Manager
• Python bindings for libempathy and libempathy-gtk
• Collaborative work using Tubes
• More to come soon...

Screenshots

• Conversation window with chat themes

• Conversation window with chat themes 2

• Empathy chat room plain

• Empathy accounts manager

• Empathy video call (old)

Project Resources

Download/Install/Source Code

• Build and install instructions

• Source Code

  • Release tarballs: http://download.gnome.org/sources/empathy

  • Feed RSS of commits

Frequently Asked Questions

• FAQ

Troubleshooting

• Debugging tips

• Protocols: For problems with a specific protocol such as Yahoo, SIP, Gtalk, etc.

Developers

• How to contribute using GIT

• Outstanding empathy branches

• Roadmap: Overview of what's being worked on and what's planned for the future

• Style
• Empathy's code is currently a mess regarding coding style. Please follow the following policy when contributing:

  • New files have to be written using the Telepathy coding style

  • If you are modifying an existing file, you should stay coherent and use the style of the file.

  • Though if you are making a lot of modifications, it would be good to use the Telepathy coding style and port the rest of the file to this style (record such commits separately)

  • When you change the coding style of a file, or create a new file, don't forget to set as first line of both .c and .h files:

Telepathy Style:
/* -*- Mode: C; tab-width: 2; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 2; -*- */

Empathy Style:
/* -*- Mode: C; tab-width: 8; indent-tabs-mode: t; c-basic-offset: 8 -*- */

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Contact Information

• IRC room is #telepathy on FreeNode (irc.freenode.org). irc://irc.freenode.org/telepathy

• Mailing list is telepathy AT lists.freedesktop.org

Bugs

• Existing Empathy bugs in GNOME Bugzilla.

• Report an Empathy bug in GNOME Bugzilla

Hacking

• Just dive in dammit!