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by Mats Bengtsson

Coccinella is a free and open-source cross-platform communication tool with a built-in whiteboard for improved collaboration with other people. Drawing Whiteboard - Voice over IP (VoIP) - File Transfer - Chat Rooms - All legacy Chat systems based on XMPP; eg: Trilllian, Miranda, Pidgin, Jabber, Adium, AIM, MSN, GoogleTalk, to name just a few. No installation whatsoever is needed. Just unzip and double click.


Min. Requirements: Win 98/Mac OS X 10.2/Linux
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Project Page: SourceForge.net


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Developer:
Coccinella is latin for Lady Bug, or actually, Coccinella septum punctata. But since Coccinella hasn't seven dots on it, and since I wanted a shorter name, I found Coccinella appropriate. But why a bug you may ask? Kind of geek joke, I found them in my code, but I hope that there are less left. ;-)

The Coccinella project is pleased to announce today the immediate availability of Coccinella 0.96.1, an 8 years young free and open-source cross-platform chat client with a built-in whiteboard for improved collaboration with other people. This second synchronized release introduces major visual improvements including the Oxygen icon theme and the new control panel with slots in the main window.

o optimized program startup to be faster
o many icons and icon sets now moved inside the theme hierarchy
o sound themes now belongs to a theme
o the login dialog can now be used to edit and create profiles
o Oxygen icon and emoticon theme
o control panel with slots
o search people slot
o experimental support for chat styles enabled by default


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PS: Check it out: Coccinella - The Movie

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How to make Coccinella portable?

You can create a cross-platform portable Coccinella USB stick this way:
1. Create a folder on the USB stick.
2. Put in this folder the Coccinella binaries (for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X). Of course you do not necessarily need all binaries, for instance if you do not want to use the USB stick on Windows computers.
3. Then open on each platform (Windows, Linux and Mac OS X) the binary for that platform.
4. Go each time to Preferences and enable the checkbox option "Store preferences in same folder as program" (on the General page).
5. Preferences will now be saved on the USB stick in the same folder as the binary.

Coccinella 0.96.6 Released
Wed, 12/03/2008 - 15:00 — sander

The Coccinella project is pleased to announce today the immediate availability of Coccinella 0.96.6, a free and open-source cross-platform chat client with a built-in whiteboard for improved collaboration with other people. Key in this release is the switch to Tcl/Tk 8.5.

Overview of new features in Coccinella 0.96.6:

• Tcl/Tk 8.5 - Anti-aliased fonts, window transparency under X11, 10% speed improvement, and much more
• Mac OS X Universal - Up to 500% (that's no typo!) speed increases and more reliability on Intel systems
• HTTP Polling - More reliable and optimized

Coccinella 0.96.12
March 18, 2009

"The Coccinella project is pleased to announce today the immediate availability of Coccinella 0.96.12, a free and open-source cross-platform communication tool with a built-in whiteboard for improved collaboration with other people. This third synchronized release is dedicated to Mats Bengtsson."

Changes:
o switch to gettext for translations
o encoding issues should be fixed in binary distributions
o removed unused libraries for smaller download
o improved transport integration
o clarifying credits and fixing possible license issues
o new Simplified Chinese and Portuguese translation

Linux/Mac/Source/Win: Download @ SourceForge