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</a> <a href="#stable">Stable
</a> <a href="#development">Development
</a> <a href="#tools">Tools
</a> <button id="btn-to-top" class="hidden"><span class="up-arrow"></span></button> <section id="main" class="content"> <h1>IM Freedom Documentation
</h1> <div class="toggle-wrapper"> <a href="#contributing" class="anchor"></a> <h5 id="contributors-guide">Contributors Guide
</h5> <p>The contributors guide will help you get started with contributions
to
<a href="#pidgin">Pidgin
</a> and other Instant Messaging Freedom
<p><a href="https://docs.imfreedom.org/contributors-guide/"> Contributors Guide
</a></p> <div class="toggle-wrapper"> <a href="#stable" class="anchor"></a> <h5 id="pidgin">Pidgin
</h5> <p>Pidgin is the current stable release of Pidgin Universal
Messenger which is a
<a href="https://gtk.org/">GTK
</a> based user
interface built on top of
<a href="#purple">libpurple
</a>.
</p> <p><a href="https://docs.imfreedom.org/pidgin2/group__pidgin.html"> Pidgin API reference
</a></p> <h5 id="purple">libpurple
</h5> <p>libpurple is intended to be the core of an IM program.
<a href="#pidgin">Pidgin
</a> is a
<a href="https://gtk.org/">GTK
</a> frontend to libpurple, and
<a href="#finch">Finch
</a> is an ncurses
frontend built using
<a href="#gnt">libgnt
</a>.
</p> <p><a href="https://docs.imfreedom.org/pidgin2/group__core.html"> libpurple API reference
</a></p> <h5 id="finch">Finch
</h5> <p>Finch is the current stable release of Finch Universal Messenger
which is a
<a href="#gnt">libgnt
</a> based user interface built on
top of
<a href="#purple">libpurple
</a>.
</p> <p><a href="https://docs.imfreedom.org/pidgin2/group__finch.html"> Finch API reference
</a></p> <p>GNT (GLib Ncurses Toolkit) is an ncurses toolkit for creating
text-mode graphical user interfaces in a fast and easy way. It is the
widget library for
<a href="#finch">Finch
</a>.
</p> <p><a href="https://docs.imfreedom.org/gnt2/"> libgnt API reference
</a></p> <div class="toggle-wrapper"> <h4 id="development" style="display:flex;"> <a href="#development" class="anchor"></a> <h5 id="pidgin3">Pidgin 3
</h5> <p>Pidgin 3 is the current development version of Pidgin Universal
Messenger which is a
<a href="https://gtk.org/">GTK
</a> based user
interface built on top of
<a href="#purple3">purple 3
</a>.
</p> <p><a href="https://docs.imfreedom.org/pidgin3/"> Pidgin 3 API reference
</a></p> <h5 id="purple3">Purple 3
</h5> <p>libpurple 3 is the current development version of the libpurple
universal messenger library.
</p> <p><a href="https://docs.imfreedom.org/purple3/"> libpurple 3 API reference
</a></p> <h5 id="finch3">Finch 3
</h5> <p>Finch 3 is the current development version of Finch Universal
<p><a href="https://docs.imfreedom.org/finch3/"> Finch 3 API reference
</a></p> <p>GNT 3 is the current development release of libgnt (GLib Ncurses
<p><a href="https://docs.imfreedom.org/gnt3/"> libgnt 3 API reference
</a></p> <h5 id="gplugin">GPlugin
</h5> <p>GPlugin is a plugin library for GLib based applications.
<a href="#purple3">purple 3
</a> uses it for all things plugins.
</p> <p><a href="https://docs.imfreedom.org/gplugin/"> GPlugin API reference
</a></p> <h5 id="talkatu">Talkatu
</h5> <p>Talkatu is a set of
<a href="https://gtk.org/">GTK
</a> widgets for
messaging.
<a href="#pidgin3">Pidgin 3
</a> uses it to have a modular
user interface that can be used by other messengers.
</p> <p><a href="https://docs.imfreedom.org/talkatu/"> Talkatu API reference
</a></p> <div class="toggle-wrapper"> <h4 id="tools" style="display:flex;"> <a href="#tools" class="anchor"></a> <h5 id="convey">Convey
</h5> <p><a href="https://keep.imfreedom.org/grim/convey">Convey
</a> is
tool to help you run pipelines of containers. We use it to test builds
across multiple operating systems as you just need a container runtime
instead of a dedicated host.
</p> <p><a href="https://docs.imfreedom.org/convey/"> Convey Documentation
</a></p> <h5 id="hgkeeper">HGKeeper
</h5> <p><a href="https://keep.imfreedom.org/grim/hgkeeper">HGKeeper
</a> is
<a href="https://www.mercurial-scm.org/">Mercurial
</a> source code
repositories. It supports multiple operation modes to help fit your
<p><a href="https://docs.imfreedom.org/hgkeeper/"> HGKeeper Documentation
</a></p>
