Gajim

Not to be confused with Gaim.
Gajim
Developer(s) Gajim Developers
Initial release May 21, 2004[1]
Stable release 0.16.6 (October 2, 2016 (2016-10-02)) [±]
Preview release
Written in Python
Operating system BSD, Linux, Microsoft Windows
Available in Multi language[2]
Type Instant messaging client
License GNU GPLv3 only
Website www.gajim.org

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 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:

Gajim is available in Basque, Bulgarian, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, English, Esperanto, French, German, Italian, Norwegian (Bokmål), Polish, Russian, Spanish, Slovak, Swedish, Ukrainian and others.[2]

Third-party plugins

Gajim supports third-party plugins. Examples include:

Security

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.[9]

See also

References

  1. ↑ ChangeLog
  2. 1 2 Development page
  3. ↑ Le Boulanger, Yann (2008-04-19). "pronunciation example of "Gajim"". Retrieved 2008-04-19.
  4. ↑ http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/ubuntu-linux-communications,2431-6.html
  5. ↑ trac from gajim: gpg.exe on Windows OS in Gajim, gnupg on win32
  6. ↑ Gajim 0.14 ChangeLog
  7. ↑ Gajim FAQ
  8. ↑ Bahtiar Gadimov. "Gajim plugin for OMEMO Multi-End Message and Object Encryption". GitHub. Retrieved 2015-12-06.
  9. ↑ trac from gajim: remote code execution

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