Empathy consists of a rich set of reusable instant messaging widgets,
and a GNOME 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
* Account editor (specialized UI for most protocols)
* Auto away and extended away using gnome-screensaver
* Auto re-connect using Network Manager
* Private and group chat (with smileys, spellcheck)
* Powerful theme engine for chats
* Log conversations, view/search in logs and prepend logs in
new chats
* Adding new contacts and viewing/editing contact information
* Voice and Video call using SIP and Jingle
* Python bindings for libempathy and libempathy-gtk
* Collaborative work using Tubes
