Welcome to the Galaxium Messenger development site!

Galaxium is an instant messenger application designed for the GNOME desktop. It will allow you to connect to MSN, Jabber, and IRC. You can communicate with your family, friends and co-workers from around the world, using different networks at the same time, while still keeping the unique user experience of each network's features.

We have some Screenshots for anyone who is interested in seeing what it looks like in action! We will add more as we near closer to our first stable release. You can also check out the Instructions page if you are interested in trying out galaxium from source. If you want to install from pre-compiled packages you can see instructions in the Repositories section.

If you want to discuss anything related to Galaxium's End-User Issues or Development topics, please join us on our Google Group.

Currently Supported Protocols (0.7.4.1): MSNP15

Protocols In Development (0.8.x-svn): MSNP18, Jabber/GoogleTalk, IRC

Future Protocols: Facebook, Yahoo, AIM/ICQ, GaduGadu, Novell GroupWise

Available Features (0.7.4.1):

• Full contact list management
• Fully customizable interface
• Multi-protocol client allowing third party addins
• Personalized content (display pictures, personal messages, custom emoticons)
• Conversation history tracking
• Adium theme support
• GStreamer audio support
• Communicate with Yahoo contacts (MSN)
• Communicate over HTTP protocol (MSN)
• Communicate through SOCKS5 or HTTP(S) proxies
• Indirect file transfers (MSN)
• Group chat (MSN)
• Offline messaging (MSN)
• Roaming profiles (MSN)

In-Progress Features (0.8.0-svn):

• IRC protocol support
• XMPP protocol support
• MSNP18 protocol support update
• Direct file transfers with universal plug and play (MSN, XMPP, IRC)
• Integration with music players like Banshee, Rhythmbox, etc. (MSN, XMPP)
• Conversation logging and viewer
• All sessions contact list view
• Updates to tango icon theme

Planned Features (0.9.0):

• Audio/Video conversations (MSN)
• Integration with the GNOME desktop, nautilus, etc.

Galaxium was originally started in 2003 by Adam Peck and Philippe Durand, students of the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology. Now it is actively being worked on by Philippe Durand, Ben Motmans and Paul Burton.

For more information on GNOME, visit http://www.gnome.org/ and find out more about this great desktop environment! Galaxium has been written using the Mono toolkit, and the MonoDevelop IDE. To find out more about these tools, visit http://www.mono-project.com/ and http://www.monodevelop.com/. We are listed on the best GNOME application repository GnomeFiles.org, please visit http://www.gnomefiles.org/ for many more great applications for your desktop!

Galaxium Roadmap

Have a look at the Roadmap to find out which features are planned for the upcoming releases.

Accepted Licenses

• GPL-2 or Higher
• LGPL
• MIT/X11
• BSD

If you want to make use of any other license, please contact us on IRC or using our Google group to make sure if the specific license is accepted.

Contribute to Galaxium

• Learn how to add support for a specific music player here.
• Learn how to add support for a new protocol here.

Helpful Articles

• Learn Galaxium's project structure here.
• Learn to maintain the development/release scripts here.
• Learn to create packages for distribution here.