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Coccinella
Screenshot Coccinella 0.95 Address-book and Whiteboard.
Developer	Mats Bengtsson
Stable release	0.96.20 / September 29, 2010;15 years ago (2010-09-29)
Repository	sourceforge.net/p/coccinella/code/HEAD/tree/
Written in	Tcl
Operating system	BSD, Linux/Unix, Mac OS X, Solaris, Windows,
License	GPLv3
Website	thecoccinella.org

Coccinella (from the Latin "coccinella", ladybird ) is a free and open-source cross-platform client for the XMPP/Jabber-instant messaging-protocol.

Contents

• Features
• See also
• References
• External links

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. ^[1]

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

See also

• Comparison of instant messaging clients

References

External links

• Official website