Empathy consists of a rich set of reusable instant messaging widgets,
and a GNOME client using those widgets. It uses Telepathy and
Nokia's Mission Control, and reuses Gossip's UI. The main goal is
to permit desktop integration by providing libempathy and libempathy-gtk
libraries. libempathy-gtk is a set of powerful widgets that can be
embeded into any GNOME application.

Current features

    * Multi-protocol: Jabber, Gtalk, MSN, IRC, Salut, and all
      supported by pidgin
    * Account editor (specialized UI for most protocols)
    * Auto away and extended away using gnome-screensaver
    * Auto re-connect using Network Manager
    * Private and group chat (with smileys, spellcheck)
    * Powerful theme engine for chats
    * Log conversations, view/search in logs and prepend logs in
      new chats
    * Adding new contacts and viewing/editing contact information
    * Voice and Video call using SIP and Jingle
    * Python bindings for libempathy and libempathy-gtk
    * Collaborative work using Tubes