Telepathy Wiki - Components

Connection Managers

Connection Managers are the components responsible for actually connecting to the Jabber/AIM/... server.

Gabble: A Jabber/XMPP connection manager that handles single- and multi-user chats and voice/video calls.
- git clone git://git.collabora.co.uk/git/telepathy-gabble.git
- Git web
- Releases (source code)
Salut: A link-local XMPP connection manager (XEP-0174). CategorySalut
- git clone git://git.collabora.co.uk/git/telepathy-salut.git
- Git web
- Releases (source code)
Idle: A IRC connection manager.
- git clone git://git.collabora.co.uk/git/telepathy-idle.git
- Git web
- Releases (source code)
Telepathy-SofiaSIP: A SIP connection manager based around the Sofia-SIP library.
- git clone git://git.collabora.co.uk/git/telepathy-sofiasip.git
- Git web;
- SF.net project page.

Haze: A connection manager based on Pidgin's libpurple, supporting all protocols in Pidgin (AIM, ICQ, Yahoo, MSN, etc) at a basic level, but already very usable. Details available on Pidgin wiki. releases
Butterfly: An MSN connection manager that handles presence, conversations, avatars, personal messages, server-side aliases, and full contact management (including groups).
- git clone git://git.collabora.co.uk/git/telepathy-butterfly.git
- Git web
- Releases (source code)
- Requires pymsn and Telepathy Python.

Wilde: An AOL/ICQ (Oscar) connection manager, this handles single direct messaging, presence, conversations and simple buddy list (add/remove).

As a user, you interact with a Telepathy Client.

Empathy: a Gnome IM/voice/video client reusing Gossip's UI and using Nokia's Mission Control
The instant messaging, address book and VoIP user interfaces on Nokia's Maemo-powered internet tablets (such as the N800 and N810) are Telepathy clients.

Ereseva: VOIP-capable webphone, based on tapioca-python and GTK+ libraries. (Ereseva SVN repository)
Landell: a GNOME Instant Messenger built around Tapioca# (C#/Mono)
Cohoba: a UI for GNOME desktops by Raphaël Slinckx (Python)
GnomeUI: an experimental UI for Gnome desktops by Adam Lofts (C#/Mono)
Banter: a Gnome IM/voice/video client with a rich user interface (C#/Mono)

Telepathy Inspector: A telepathy client (GTK+) whose objective is to expose all interfaces and functionalities implemented by a given connection manager along with its connections, channels, etc.

Telepathy Python: Python libraries for use in Telepathy clients (e.g. Cohoba) and connection managers (e.g. Butterfly)
TelepathyQt: Qt4 libraries for use in Telepathy clients and connection managers
TelepathySharp: A .NET library for use in Telepathy clients
TapiocaQt: A high-level Qt4 library on top of TelepathyQt for use in Telepathy clients (e.g. decibel, kopete)
TapiocaSharp: A high-level .NET library on top of TelepathySharp for use in Telepathy clients (e.g. landell)
Telepathy GLib: A GLib-based helper library for clients and connection managers
libtelepathy: A GLib library to ease writing Telepathy clients in glib; deprecated in favour of Telepathy GLib. releases

Mission Control: Control the launching of connection managers and clients. Sources available on Mission Control website
Stream engine: A Telepathy client that uses Farsight and GStreamer to handle media streaming for channels with the MediaSignalling interface. releases
telepathy-feed: A Galago feed for Telepathy. http://telepathy.freedesktop.org/releases/telepathy-feed

Antoine Perdaens is working on a OSCAR protocol implementation, adding Audio and Video presence and conferencing negotiation - OscarSOC