Psi+(1)

NAME
psi-plus-webengine - Qt-based XMPP client (WebEngine version)

SYNOPSIS
psi-plus-webengine

DESCRIPTION
Psi is a capable XMPP client aimed at experienced users. Its design goals are simplicity and stability. Psi is highly portable and runs on MS Windows, GNU/Linux and macOS.

Psi is minimal but powerful. There are keybindings for just about everything, Unicode is supported throughout and contacts are cached offline. Security is also a major consideration, and Psi provides it for both client-to-server (TLS) and client-to-client (GnuPG, OTR, OMEMO).

WebKit version of Psi has few additional features (in comparing with basic version of Psi): support of animated emoticons, support of (adium) themes in private chats and group chats, support of previewing of images and videos in private chats and group chats, etc. But if you prefer old fashioned plain text chats from era of IRC heyday, then basic version of Psi is your obvious choice.

WebEngine version of Psi is identical to WebKit version of Psi in supporting of extra features, but it has some pros and cons: better work with embedded video (in chats), worse integration into system (it does not use system theme and fonts), supports less amount of compilers, systems and CPU architectures (in fact its workability is tested and guaranteed only for x86_64 architecture).

In 2009 a Psi fork named Psi+ was started. Project purposes are: implementation of new features, writing of patches and plugins for transferring them to upstream. As of 2017 all active Psi+ developers have become official Psi developers, but Psi+ still has a number of unique features. From developers point of view Psi+ is just a development branch of Psi which is hosted at separate git repositories and for which rolling release development model is used.

AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Boris Pek <tehnick-8@yandex.ru> for the Debian Project and may be used by others.