Mono, currently in alfa version. It has a new interface and social web
integration for twitter, youtube, flickr and the likes. It only
supports XMPP protocol (so it can "talk" to any other XMPP
server/client like Jabber, Google Talk) and Twitter for now and its
design is very modern and looks great, and seamlessly integrates with
Growl notifications, which arrived with the first alpha of Ubuntu 9.04
Jaunty Jackalope.
While there is plenty of Linux-specific software out there as well,
most of it is to fill the void left by mainstream vendors. Consider
the Instant Messaging world. Google Talk still has no native client
for Linux. In fact, there is no really good and well supported chat
client on Linux that reliably does voice as well as video chat. Yes,
there are ways to make it work, but if they really worked, wouldn't
more people be using them?
A brave soul is making another attempt to change the status-quo. Enter
Synapse: a refreshingn take on a Jabber/XMPP only IM client, designed
especially for Linux. An interesting aspect of Synapse is the contact
list, where we don't see our friends as a list like in all usual
applications of this type, but in a grid, with images, icons or
avatars they choose. On mouse over, we see the additional data (email,
name, etc). This is a great new way to display the contact list, but
you do need to know your contact's pictures for this.
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