:: General Info:: Users:: Developers:: Other |
:: What is Silky?
:: Features
- Silky is a secure chat client.
- Silky has a simple and easy to use user interface.
- Silky runs in Windows, Linux, OS X, NetBSD, FreeBSD, OpenBSD and possibly in some other systems.
- Silky doesn't require the GNOME desktop to run, just GTK2 runtime libraries.
- Silky uses the SILC Protocol, used in free-for-all chat network SILCNet.
- Silky is an open source application, with GPL licence.
:: Project history, future objectives
The project was launched in summer 2003, motivated by the fact that there was no good graphical SILC client available. There was obvious demand for an easy to use client, as at the time there was only one fully featured client and it was a textual client.First proof-of-concept version of Silky was drafted together quickly in couple of days, and it got some people interested in developing a fully featured graphical client. Now, after year and a half and with contributions from many friendly people Silky is starting to look and feel like a real chat client.
The primary objective of the project is to create a chat client that suits the needs of beginners as well as advanced users. Silky differentiates from other simple SILC clients, such as GAIM, by having more features and flexibility, but without losing the easy of use.
Portability is one of the key features of the Silky. The code has been tested to work in all major operating systems including Linux, Mac OS X and Windows. Silky should run in all kinds of environments from embedded Linux devices to powerful desktop workstation.
Next steps of the project are to complete all missing features, and to get Silky shipped with all major Linux distributions.
:: Latest news
- 2005-10-12 - Rewrite - Silky's current code is a mess, a complete rewrite with a cleaner design has been started.
- 2005-07-05 - Summer activities - Toni has got some free time during summer. Expect a new release soon.
- 2005-05-25 - Silky for Maemo - We've made initial port of Silky for Nokia 770 development environment, Maemo
- 2005-03-21 - Silky 0.5.4 has been built for FC3 today. Get yours from the download page or FC3 Extras repository!
- 2005-03-19 - Silky 0.5.4 is out! Just a little bugfix release.
- 2005-03-18 - Silky 0.5.3 has been released!
- 2005-03-08 - Silky's CVS and bug tracking moved from Sourceforge to GNOME.org.
- 2005-01-19 - Development continues actively. Updated screenshot.
- 2004-10-24 - The Windows version of Silky 0.5.2 has been released. Note that you need new version of GTK too.
- 2004-10-09 - Silky 0.5.2 has been released!
- 2004-09-24 - Silky has been added to Fedora Extras. Yum your's today!
- 2004-08-29 - Silky has been added to Debian. Apt-get your's today!
- 2004-04-18 - Silky 0.5.1 released! This version requires the SILC Toolkit 0.9.12.
- Older news removed
- 2003-07-25 - Project started
:: Mailing lists We have set up few mailing lists for Silky users and developers. Follow the links to subscription information:
- silky-announce (archive) - Release announcements
- silky-users (archive) - User discussion, help- and feature requests
- silky-devel (archive) - Development discussion
- silky-cvs (archive) - CVS commit announcements (read-only)
Details about the lists can be found from here.
:: Licencing & Copyright
Silky is an open source project. Licenced under GPL - General Public Licence.Copyright © 2003, 2004, 2005 Toni Willberg - http://toniw.iki.fi/ - toniw@iki.fi
:: Screenshots
Silky ported to Nokia 770 Maemo Development Environment (Nokia 770) |
The new color schema, Fedora Core 3 |
The main window of Silky 0.5.1 Microsoft Windows 2000 |
:: Credits
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