KMess, the Live Messenger alternative for Linux
As a Linux user, it's still easy to contact your friends!
With KMess, chatting with friends using Live Messenger has never been so good - enjoy our great features:
- Display picture transfers
- Fast file transfers
- Custom emoticons, nudges and winks
- Offline messaging and chatting while invisible
- Rich and colorful chat styles and logs
- Chat logging and logs browsing
- Messenger Plus Live text coloring and formatting
- Live Mail notifications
- Block annoying custom emoticons
- Connectivity from behind firewalls and proxies
- Good-looking and friendly user interface
See now the screenshots page for a visual overview of the other countless KMess features!
We recommend you to use your distribution's package manager to download KMess 2.0.3!
Otherwise, you can get the source code:
Download our newest stable release 2.0.3 now!
There are binaries for various distributions as well as a source package for advanced users.
Download KMess!
About KMess
KMess is an alternative Live Messenger chat client for Linux. It allows Linux users to chat with friends who use Live Messenger in Windows or Mac OS. The strength of KMess is it's integration with the KDE desktop environment, it focus on Messenger-specific features and an easy-to-use interface.
Like many Linux and KDE applications, KMess is free software. Our software's license is the GNU General Public License.
Do you want to help?
KMess is Free and Open Source Software made by volunteers. You can contribute translations, report problems, make suggestions, improve the code, or add new features! Contact us if you'd like to help!KMess 2.0.3 released
March 10 2010 -- The KMess team announces today the immediate availability of our latest point release: KMess 2.0.3, the newest version of a Live Messenger (MSN) client powered by the KDE platform. It contains a slew of bug fixes, general improvements, but also some nice new features:
- Drag-and-drop an image to your display picture to change it.
- Set your friendly name and personal message by clicking on their labels in the contact list.
- Significantly improved performance when drawing complex inks (in isf-Qt).
- Show unread email count in the system tray tooltip.
- Improved proxy support.
- Set the personal message using DBus.
- Replaced QCA with GCrypt.
- Fixed crash that sometimes occurred when logging in with the wrong password.
- Fixed bug which caused the "Contact Added User" dialog to appear at next logon after deleting a contact.
- Fixed bug which caused the chat window size to not be saved under KDE 4.4.
- Updated various translations.
- And various other smaller updates and fixes...
In addition, the following translations were added:
- Added a Russian translation by Dmitriy Simbiriatin.
- Added a Portuguese translation by Bruno Almeida.
You can find the source code at the downloads page, and binary packages for various distributions will start flooding in soon.
Thanks to 25 volunteer translators, KMess is available in 19 languages. Other people, without whom this release would not be what it is today, as well as the current members of the KMess team, are listed on our People page.
Any remarks, notes, threats, treats, as well as bug reports can be posted at our forums. You can also send us messages using the LikeBack client built into KMess, accessible via Help -> Send a Comment to the Developers. We wish you a lot of fun and chatting with KMess!
