Coccinella is a Jabber client with a whiteboard.

Coccinella is a Jabber client with a whiteboard. The whiteboard is a shared desktop which supports text, drawings, images, and multimedia in a number of formats, such as MP3 and video.

Coccinella runs in two main modes, a peer-to-peer configuration and a mode compatible with the Jabber Instant Messaging system.

A flexible plugin architecture may be used to support additional formats. It should run on any machine that runs Tcl/Tk.

Here are some key features of "Coccinella":

· Write text with any font, size, normal, bold, etc.
· Toolbar with basic drawing capabilities
· Flexible editing of each item in the canvas window
· Support for foreign language character sets, from swedish ¥, ¤, and ¶, to Chinese (Unicode)
· Extended functionality via plugins, see Extensions. This includes mp3's on all platforms, video, synthetic speech of written text etc.
· Full QuickTime support on Macs and Windows
· Open source with the Gnu public license.

What's New in This Release:

· all toolbars collapsable on mac
· menu option to select what to display in status line (JID, status, host)
· handles multiple DNS SRV records
· undo/redo of text
· better support for processing multiple selected contacts in roster
· native chasing arrows on platforms where this is supported (Mac)
· improved support for transports
· chat tab close buttons now on the tabs
· cleaner transport registration dialogs
· redesigned themeing directory structure