KMess - MSN / Live Messenger for Linux / KDE

MSN Protocol compatibility

• Group chats (chatting with multiple contacts)
• Fast and reliable file transfers with file previews
• Automatic contact picture transfers
• Full MSN and custom emoticon support
• Font and text colors
• Personal Messages
• Customizable status to set when connecting
• "Now Playing" support to view what others are listening to, and to let them know what you are listening to
• Reception of offline messages
• Microsoft's Live Mail support, with inbox count, new email notifications, and direct link to the user's inbox
• Nudges and winks (for winks, an Adobe Flash player and cabextract are required)
• Links to your contacts' Live Profiles and to the Live Spaces Search page.
• NetMeeting<->GnomeMeeting and GnomeMeeting<->GnomeMeeting invitations

KMess interface

• Internationalization support, with translations in 20 languages.
• Contacts who don't have you on their list are displayed with italics
• When contacts type, their pictures "glow" brighter
• Show or hide offline contacts
• Show or hide the special "allowed" and "removed" groups to modify them right from your contact list
• Organize the contact list by group or by online/offline status
• Emoticons are also shown in the contact list
• Groups show a count of the online contacts in that group (for example: "Friends (2/5)")
• The KMess logo is the background picture in the contact list
• Chat window sidebar with contact pictures and email address for all contacts in chat; many options are available with the right click menu
• Chat window links and emoticons can be right-clicked to copy or visit links, and to add new custom emoticons
• Alternating and flashing taskbar entry to inform of received messages

KMess extras

• Display timestamps when contacts send messages
• Compact form to display chat messages by grouping following messages
• Text formatting with /italic/, _underlined_, and *bold*
• Option to override your contacts' font and colors
• Contact name aliases, to avoid those long and irritating nick names
• Option to override the contacts' pictures
• Popup balloons notifications for contacts events
• Configuration for the sounds and popup notifications for each contact
• Customized "Away with Auto reply" status that will reply to contacts with an user-specified away message
• Support for multiple MSN user accounts profiles
• A full MSN emoticon set to replace the MSN one (released under the GPL, as KMess is)
• Ability to change between different emoticon themes
• Chat logging with full markup (saves images and emoticons)
• Chat logs can be ordered in subdirectories by day, week, or month
• Auto-login, either at the setting page for from the command line (with "kmess --autologin you@hotmail.com" for example)