Gajim
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Screenshot  Gajim 0.11.1's Main Window | |
| Developer(s) | Gajim Developers |
|---|---|
| Initial release | May 21, 2004[1] |
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| Repository | |
| Written in | Python |
| Operating system | BSD, GNU/Linux, Microsoft Windows |
| Available in | Multi language[2] |
| Type | Instant messaging client |
| License | GNU GPLv3 only |
| Website | www |
Gajim /ɡɛˈʒiːm/[3] is an instant messaging client for the XMPP protocol which uses the GTK+ toolkit. The name Gajim is a recursive acronym for Gajim's a jabber instant messenger. Gajim runs on GNU/Linux, BSD and Microsoft Windows. Released under the GNU General Public License, Gajim is free software. A 2009 round-up of similar software on Tom's Hardware found version 0.12.1 "the lightest and fastest jabber IM client".[4]
Philosophy and features
The goal of the Gajim project is to provide a full-featured and easy to use XMPP client for GTK+ users. Gajim uses PyGTK as GUI library, so it does not require full GNOME to run, though it works nicely under a GNOME environment. Some of its features:
- Tabbed chat windows
- Group chat support (with MUC protocol)
- Emoticons, Avatars, File transfer, URL grabber, Bookmarks
- Systray icon, Speller
- TLS, OpenPGP and end-to-end encryption support (OpenPGP not available under Windows until version 0.15),[5] including SSL legacy support
- Transport Registration support
- Service Discovery including Nodes
- Wikipedia, dictionary and search engine lookup
- Multiple accounts support
- D-Bus Capabilities
- XML Console
- Jingle voice and video support[6] (using the "python-farsight" library, no support in Windows yet)
Gajim is available in Basque, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, English, Esperanto, French, German, Italian, Norwegian (Bokmål), Polish, Russian, Spanish, Slovak, Swedish and Ukrainian.[2]
Security
Despite being written in Python (and thus generally invulnerable to buffer overflow attacks), Gajim has a history of a critical vulnerabilities. Up until late 2011, it was possible to forge a link such that when a receiving Gajim user clicks on it, arbitrary code would be executed on the Gajim user's machine.[7]
See also
References
- ^ ChangeLog
- ^ a b Development page
- ^ Le Boulanger, Yann (2008-04-19). "pronunciation example of "Gajim"". Retrieved 2008-04-19.
- ^ http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/ubuntu-linux-communications,2431-6.html
- ^ trac from gajim: gpg.exe on Windows OS in Gajim, gnupg on win32
- ^ Gajim 0.14 ChangeLog
- ^ trac from gajim: remote code execution
Reviews
- Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier Review: Gajim Jabber client on Linux.com, September 16, 2005
- Mihai Marinof, Gajim Review. Free Jabber client for Linux. on Softpedia, 7 November 2006
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