The old google chat client (gTalk) had a nasty UI and looked old and needed a facelift and some additional plugins like Google Hangout support and Email in client itself.
jig is a console based jabber client. The UI is modeled after bsflite. It will be kept as simple as possible,
while maintaining as many features as possible (GPG encryption, file transfers, etc).
This is a plugin based jabber interface acts like a jabber client and listens to external commands in irc style. It is a remote shell with jabber being the command console.