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Tkabber

Tkabber is a Free and Open Source client for an instant messaging system called Jabber. It writen in Tcl/Tk, and works on many platforms (tested on Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, Solaris and Windows 98/2000/XP).

Please, if you find any bugs, report about it here. And write, if you want to have some features, that do not exist in Tkabber.

Here you can subscribe to Tkabber mailing list.

Installation requirements:

You need BWidget and Tcllib. All these libs come with ActiveState Tcl. If you don't have it, then you must find and install these libs (or, e.g. in Debian use 'apt-get install tk tcllib bwidget').
You need Unicode fonts if you want to see non-english chars. (In screenshots I used font from Debian package unifont).

Features:

sessions:

hashed passwords

encrypted sessions (if you install an optional extension)

login via HTTP proxy

user-defined hooks for connection establishment and release

XMPP/Jabber MIME type

messages:

emoticons

signed/encrypted messages (if you install an optional extension)

file transfers (HTTP, DTCP and IBB transports)

filters

groupchat (GroupChat-1.0, Conference-v2 and Multi-User Chat conferencing protocols)

headline messages

message events

completions of nick and commands

hyperlinks

user-defined hooks for chat window events

presence:

avatars

browsing

groupchat and roster invitations

signed presence (if you install an optional extension)

vCards

user-defined hooks for presence changes

windowing:

configurable look-and-feel via a resources database

unicode

tabbed/non-tabbed interface

sound notifications

nested roster groups

for Unix: auto-away, spell checking, KDE docking, and WMaker icons

for Windows: auto-away, and taskbar icons

Supported JEPs:

JEP	Title	Version	Status	Comment
JEP-0004	Data Gathering and Reporting	2.1	Final
JEP-0008	User Avatars in Jabber	0.2	Retracted	Need to replace this with implementation of JEP-0084
JEP-0011	Jabber Browsing	1.0	Active
JEP-0016	Server-Based Privacy Rules	1.2	Deprecated	Need to replace this with implementation of XMPP privacy rules
JEP-0020	Feature Negotiation	0.3	Experimental	Need to implement v1.1 (Draft)
JEP-0022	Message Events	1.1	Active
JEP-0030	Service Discovery	1.0	Draft
JEP-0038	Icon Styles	0.4	Experimental	Not all possible features supported
JEP-0039	Statistics Gathering	0.6.0	Experimental
JEP-0041	Jidlink	0.5	Experimental	Exists version 0.7
JEP-0045	Multi-User Chat	1.4	Draft
JEP-0046	DTCP	0.4	Retracted	Need to replace this with implementation of JEP-0065
JEP-0047	Inband Bytestream (IBB)	0.2	Experimental	Exists version 0.6
JEP-0054	vcard-temp	1.1	Active
JEP-0055	jabber:iq:search	1.0	Active
JEP-0081	XMPP/Jabber MIME Type	0.1	Experimental	Not supported ``Searching a Directory'' and subitems inside <disco/> are ignored
JEP-0083	Nested Roster Groups	0.1	Experimental	Currently supported only ``::'' separator

Screenshots

Documentation

Download

Latest version is 0.9.6beta.

You can retrieve the latest alpha version via CVS. Do following steps:

export CVSROOT=:pserver:anonymous@jabberstudio.org:/home/cvs
cvs login
Enter empty password
cvs -z3 co tkabber/tkabber
And if you want to test some plugins, then do cvs -z3 co tkabber/tkabber-plugins

Also you can download Tkabber Pack -- Tkabber installation for windows.

Additional packets that you can install to support more features:

TclXML for support of non-pure Tcl XML parsers. Linux-compiled version of TclXML: tclxml-cvs20020729.tar.gz.
tkXwin for support of auto-away.
tkTheme for KDE tray support.
TLS for SSL support.
Tcl GPGME for GPG support.

And here some sets of emoticons. For example of usage look to examples/config.tcl.

Alexey Shchepin

xmpp:aleksey@jabber.ru

Last modified: Fri Jun 13 11:10:45 EEST 2003