emesene

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Emesene

emesene

emesene under the GNOME desktop environment
Developer:	Luis Mariano Guerra et al.
Initial release:	2006
Stable release	1.0.1 (25 March 2008)
Written in:	Python
OS:	Cross-platform
Genre:	Instant Messaging
License:	GNU General Public License
Website:	[[Website::emesene.org]]

emesene is an open source instant messaging client designed for use with Microsoft's .NET messenger service. It is a 'clone' of Windows Live Messenger.

Its goal is to replicate the functions of the official Windows Live client in a simpler, cleaner and easier to use interface.

emesene is licensed under the GNU General Public License, and is developed by Luis Mariano Guerra along with other contributors.

1 Development
2 Compatibility
3 See also
4 External links

[edit] Development

emesene is cross-platform, with binaries available for both Microsoft Windows and Linux.

The program is written using Python, GTK+, pyGTK and pyCairo.

[edit] Compatibility

The current version of emesene is 1.0.1 and is compatible with the Windows Live Messenger protocol MSNP13.

Official Windows Live Messenger features supported by the client are:

Offline messaging
Personal messages
'Now Playing' personal messages
Nudges
Contact list retrieval from server
Nickname retrieval from server
Tabbed chat windows
Conversation logging
File transfer
Webcam support (only for receiving - still in development)

Other features specific to emesene are:

Plugins (now playing, Gmail checker, POP3 mail checker, spell checker, Youtube videos, last.fm song reporting, MSN Premium and others)
Auto-reply
Minimise to notification area (System Tray)
Window and icon themes
Emoticon themes
LaTeX support
Multilingual support (16 languages)