Gajim is a powerful tool which provides a fully featured and easy-to-use Jabber client. You are new to the Jabber world and you want to get an account on a Jabber server? It's easy! You first have to choose a Jabber server that offers you the services you need.
One of Jabber's features is that servers provide methods to communicate with contacts on 'legacy' messaging systems, such as ICQ, MSN, AIM, Yahoo, ...
It's not necessary to have every transport you'll require, because you can use transports on a server different to that which you're connected to. With that in mind, you should concentrate on finding a server that's fast, and close to you in location (the two usually go together) or perhaps one that has a good sounding name. There is a good list of servers on the jabber.org website.
Another advantage of the Jabber protocol is that you can be connected more than once with an account, with differents resources and priorities. For example, you can be connected at home with resource "At Home" and priority 5, and when you are at work you can be connected with resource "At Work" and priority 7 to get your messages at work.
· Tabbed chat window and single window modes
· Group chat support (with MUC protocol), invitation, chat to groupchat transformation, minimize groupchat to roster
· Emoticons, Avatars, PEP (user activity, mood and tune)
· File transfer, Room Bookmarks
· Metacontacts Support
· Trayicon, Speller, extented chat history functionalities
· TLS, GPG and End-To-End encryption support (with SSL legacy support)
· Transport Registration support
· Service Discovery including Nodes, user search
· Wikipedia, dictionary and search engine lookup
· Multiple accounts support
· DBus Capabilities.
· XML Console
· link local (bonjour / zeroconf), BOSH
· Gajim is available in 25 languages: Basque, Belarusian, Brasilian, British, Bulgarian, Chinese (simplified), Croatian, Czech, Danish, English, Esperanto, French, Galician, German, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Norwegian (Bokmål), Polish, Russian, Serbian, Spanish, Slovak, Swedish and Ukrainian
Requirements:
· GTK+ Runtime Environment
What's New in This Release:
· Fix history viewer
· Fix closing roster window
· Prevent some errors with metacontacts