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Empathy

Empathy is a messaging program which supports text, voice, video chat, and file transfers over many different protocols. You can tell it about your accounts on all those services and do all your chatting within one application.

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  • Free
  • Open Source

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  • Discontinued

Platforms

  • Linux  Provided by distribution
  • BSD  Provided by distribution
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Discontinued

Empathy is currently unmaintained. Last version, 3.25, released in August 2017, can be still downloaded from the official website.

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Empathy was added to AlternativeTo by dik on and this page was last updated .

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lsoares
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Empathy is great.. contacts can be grouped that's a very nice feature

Deafboy
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Replacing Pidgin with Empathy as default IM in Gnome was hudge mistake.. for now. Hope it would be better in future.

anacrolix

still not better :)

camis

you can, if you want, remove empathy without removing all the gnome-shell or ubuntu-desktop with this command: sudo apt-get purge "empathy.*"

if you to remove the desktop integration, change "empathy." with "telepathy." it also works for gwibber and many others.

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What is Empathy?

Empathy is a messaging program which supports text, voice, video chat, and file transfers over many different protocols. You can tell it about your accounts on all those services and do all your chatting within one application.

Empathy uses Telepathy for protocol support and has a user interface based on Gossip. Empathy is the default chat client in current versions of GNOME, making it easier for other GNOME applications to integrate collaboration functionality using Telepathy.

Current features

Multi-protocol: Google Talk (Jabber/XMPP), MSN, IRC, Salut, AIM, Facebook, Yahoo!, Gadu Gadu, Groupwise, ICQ and QQ. (Supported protocols depend on installed Telepathy Connection Manager components.) Supports all protocols supported by Pidgin. File transfer for XMPP, and local networks. Voice and video call using SIP, XMPP and Google Talk. Some IRC support.

For detailed list of supported protocol features see here

Conversation theming (see list of supported Adium themes). Sharing and viewing location information. Private and group chat (with smileys and spell checking).

Conversation logging. Automatic away and extended away presence. Automatic reconnection using Network Manager. Python bindings for libempathy and libempathy-gtk Support for collaborative applications (“tubes”).