[ Thanks to Chris7mas for this link.
]
“Empathy: This is yet another GNOME instant messaging client
with support for Google Talk, MSN, IRC, Salut, AIM, Facebook,
Yahoo, Gadu-Gadu, Groupwise, ICQ and QQ. You will have to install
specific Telepathy Connection Manager components in order to
support all protocols e.g. sudo apt-get install telepathy-haze.
Empathy features popup and sound notifications, smileys,
spell-checking and themes.”