Coccinella (software)

Coccinella (from the Latin "coccinella", ladybird) is a free and open-source cross-platform client for the XMPP/Jabber-instant messaging-protocol.



The software is written in the Tcl/Tk language, and it runs under BSD, Linux, Mac OS X, Solaris, Windows and all other platforms that support Tcl/Tk. Mats Bengtsson published it in 1999, under the name Whiteboard. It was renamed Coccinella in 2003.

Features

 * MUC (Multi-User Chat)
 * Whiteboard
 * encrypted connections
 * configurable Design (Themes/Skins)
 * Unicode
 * Userinterface with Tabs
 * Eventsignaling by Sound
 * VoIP-support over XMPP-Jingle-Extension
 * Emoticons
 * Typing Notification (see, when your peer-user is typing)
 * Icon in system tray
 * Avatars
 * Filetransfer
 * Mac OS X-notificationsystem Growl supported