Tkabber | a free Jabber client in Tcl/Tk

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

Official Documentation: Features | Requirements | Configuration | Getting help

Dark Radar - new Tkabber theme

Submitted by badlop on Thu, 03/23/2006 - 17:17

Dark Radar is a new Tkabber theme developed by Bobus. It includes a xrdb file and an iconset.
The author is open to suggestions or comments, so feel free to add a comment here, in english or russian.

Download: darkradar-theme.tar.gz

Screenshot: tkshot002.png

New Tkabber 0.9.8, Tkabber-Pack and Tkabber Starpack

Submitted by badlop on Mon, 08/22/2005 - 15:01

Tkabber 0.9.8 has been released, almost a year after the previous version.

Release highlights:

Support for STARTTLS (required for XMPP/1.0 compliancy)
Reorganized menu
Support for searching in chat window
Support for annotations about roster items (JEP-0145)
Support for conference rooms bookmarks (JEP-0048)
Added multilogin support for GPGME
Better support for xml:lang
Support for service discovery extensions (JEP-0128)
Support for NTLM authentication
Many fixes and enhancements

Tkabber wins 'Honorable Mention' on ASPN Coolest Tk Screenshot Contest

Submitted by badlop on Wed, 01/19/2005 - 17:00

As mentioned on Jabber Journal #20, Alexey Schchepin won an Honorable Mention for Tkabber on ASPN Coolest Tk Screenshot Contest 2004.

The Grand Prize was won by another Jabber developer: Mats Bengtsson with Coccinella.

What mode do you use in Tkabber?

Submitted by badlop on Wed, 09/29/2004 - 21:35

Tabbed mode (default, single window)

66% (896 votes)

Untabbed mode (multiple windows, like Psi)

16% (215 votes)

Both

7% (90 votes)

No idea

12% (161 votes)

Total votes: 1362

How is a roster with 2000 contacts?

Submitted by badlop on Mon, 08/23/2004 - 18:51

Have you ever asked how many contacts will you have on your roster in the future? Propietary instant messaging services limit your buddy list to 150 or so. Is there any limit in a Jabber roster? Of course, public servers should put a limit to prevent buggy clients from compromising the server. But how high is the technical limit? Maybe 500? 1000? And what happens when you have so many contacts in your roster?

As far as I know, XMPP does not impose any limit, and there is no recomendation. So servers and clients will tell what's the technical limit.

Tkabber Starpack 0.10.0

Submitted by badlop on Wed, 07/28/2004 - 13:50

Tkabber Starpack is a binary file that contains Tkabber, Tcl/Tk, and all other required packages to run Tkabber. So, with this Starpack you do not need to install anything on your computer to use Tkabber. It's also really lightweight, less than 5 megs of download.

New Tkabber-Pack 0.9.7.0

Submitted by badlop on Wed, 07/28/2004 - 13:35

I've released a new version of Tkabber-Pack, the Tkabber installer for Windows.

Go to Tkabber-Pack section for download links and more information.

New Tkabber 0.9.7

Submitted by badlop on Wed, 07/28/2004 - 13:19

There is a new Tkabber release, 0.9.7. The highlights are:

Updated support for file transfer (JEP-0095, JEP-0096, JEP-0047, JEP-0065)
Support for colored nicks and messages in conference
Better multiple logins support
Updated support for xml:lang
Support for IDNA (RFC3490)
Many fixes and enhancements

XHTML-IM partial support in Tkabber

Submitted by badlop on Fri, 07/16/2004 - 13:57

Tkabber has partial support to render XHTML messages as described in the experimental JEP-0071: XHTML-IM. In this test I used Tkabber CVS 2004-06-24 and Gaim 0.79.