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