Gajim Explained

Gajim
Logo Alt:Gajim Logo
Developer:Gajim Developers
Released:May 21, 2004[1]
Programming Language:Python
Operating System:BSD, Linux, macOS, Microsoft Windows
Standard:XMPP
Language:Multi language[2]
Genre:Instant messaging client
License:GPL-3.0-only

Gajim [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, macOS, and Microsoft Windows. Released under the GPL-3.0-only 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]

Features

Gajim aims to be an easy to use and fully-featured XMPP client. Gajim uses GTK (PyGObject) as GUI library, which makes it cross-platform compatible. 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.

Third-party plugins

Gajim supports various third-party plugins (official list).

See also

References

Reviews

External links

Notes and References

  1. https://dev.gajim.org/gajim/gajim/blob/master/ChangeLog ChangeLog
  2. Web site: Development page . 2017-01-28 . 2017-06-30 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170630162943/https://gajim.org/dev.php . dead .
  3. Web site: Le Boulanger . Yann . 2008-04-19 . pronunciation example of "Gajim" . 2008-04-19 . 2012-02-19 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120219030605/http://gajim.org/Gajim.ogg . dead .
  4. Web site: Adam Overa. 2009-10-19. Tom's Definitive Linux Software Roundup: Communications Apps. 2022-02-12. Tom's Hardware. en.
  5. https://dev.gajim.org/gajim/gajim/blob/gajim_0.14/ChangeLog#L30 Gajim 0.14 ChangeLog
  6. Web site: Gajim FAQ . Gajim Wiki. 16 April 2023 .
  7. Web site: 2024-04-14 . gajimfaq · Wiki · gajim / gajim · GitLab . 2024-04-27 . GitLab . en.