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  <desc>Unified instant-messaging and communications service</desc>
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<title>Telepathy</title>

  <p>Telepathy provides a powerful framework for interacting with the user's
  instant messaging contacts. With Telepathy, all accounts and connections are
  handled by a <link xref="tech-d-bus">D-Bus</link> session service that's
  deeply integrated into the GNOME desktop. Applications can tie into this
  service to communicate with contacts.</p>

<p>With the Telepathy Tubes API, you can even tunnel an arbitrary
protocol over modern instant messaging protocols like Jabber to
create interactive applications. You can create multi-player games or
collaborative editors that integrate with the desktop-wide
instant messaging services.</p>

<list style="compact">
  <item><p><link href="http://telepathy.freedesktop.org/doc/book/">Telepathy Developer's Manual</link></p></item>
  <item><p><link href="http://telepathy.freedesktop.org">The Telepathy web site</link></p></item>

</list>

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