Now TiK is back in actively supported development, and getting better and better. Here we actively support the plugins and add-ons, as well. The setup of this separate project for the collaboration on non-core items related to TiK is just for that. Some of the existing plugins are due to be checked-in here. The internationalization translation is just starting.

Latest Downloads

• none onsite
• CVS tarball
• tik-0.87.tar.gz

• or CVS Version
  (Cutting-edge TiK)

Languages

• pending

Project

• Bugs
• CVS
• Downloads
• Forums
• FTP TiK
• News
• Patches
• Plugins
• Surveys

Offsite Resources

• AOL TiK Page
• AOL Signup
• Netscape Signup
• TAC

• Apache Monitor
• AP Wire (blocked)
• Beat keepalive
• CNN News
• Eardrum AOL sounds
• Eyeball
• Gelframe
• Hierarchy Internals
• Mouth / speechd
• Netscape Remote
• Personality
• Slashmeat
• Weather
• Yahoo Stocks

 News:

The TiK Plugins are starting to trickle in for collaborative and just infrastructure support here.

The Internationalization (i18n) efforts for TiK are a (tiklang) module in this tikpkgs project. Would you like to help? (See below, also).
 
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 TiK Users

 Watch for this site to become the download source for:

• TiK Plugins

  While there are some plugins that are part of the core distribution, many more exist, and even more are possible. A TiK plugin is a software module especially written to become part of the running Instant Messenger client. It may display additional information in the Buddy List or Ticker, it may help managing, chats or buddy lists or logs, or merely be a fun tool.

  Recent versions of TiK are designed to have the core functions installed centrally, shared by all users on a given machine, either at the same time (e.g. exported X Windows) or when that user is logged in. The plugins here are intended to be installed in the user's own tik configuration directory, e.g.:

  • $HOME/.tik/
  • $HOME/.tik/media/
  • $HOME/.tik/packages/
  • $HOME/.tik/strs/
  • $HOME/.tik/tikrc

• TiK Add-Ons

  One external add on is part of the core. In each TiK distribution, there is a helper script called configTool.tcl which can be used as a stand-alone tool to retrieve your buddy list from the toc server at America Online. In early versions, the tac.tcl commandline text-only console chat client was also part of the core distribution. But these two small items are only a drop in the bucket as compared with what is possible.

• TiK Languages

  Just started is a full internationalization project. This will ultimately include the capacity to chat and IM in any language or script, but for now, especially includes the documentation and user interface.

• Related Items

  This category might include things like installation aids, Buddy List export handlers (perhaps you want your instant status displayed on a webpage - write a plugin with a LISTEN socket, and access that LISTEN socket with a PHP script from your webserver on a different machine. That function does not yet exist. The PHP3 or PHP4 script would belong in this category.