One of the missing features in jabber most commercial instant messaging systems have are small games one can easily play over them. Till now, because just yesterday, gajim got support for Tic Tac Toe over jabber.

Which reminds me tic tac toe was one of the first »programming projects« I did in the past, some day I'll have to dig out the sources and publish them. My next wish would be something like tetrinet over jabber.

Gajim-svn ebuild is in my overlay at http://svn.hboeck.de/overlay/.

In the instant messaging world, encryption is a bit of a problem. There is no single standard that all clients share, mostly two methods of encryption are out there: pgp over jabber (as defined in the xmpp standard) and otr.

Most clients only support either otr (pidgin, adium) or pgp (gajim, psi), for a long time I was looking for a solution where both methods work. psi has otr-patches, but they didn't work when I tried them. kopete also has an otr-plugin, but I've not tested that yet.

Today I found that there is an otr-branch of gajim, which is my everyday client, so this would be great. As you can see on the picture, it seems to work on a connection with an ICQ user using pidgin.

I've created some ebuilds in my overlay (the code is stored in bazaar, I've copied the bzr eclass from the desktop effects overlay):

svn co https://svn.hboeck.de/overlay