KMess program is a MSN messenger for KDE.


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Here are some key features of "KMess":

· MSN Messenger protocol compatibility
· Font and font color support, including the ability to force contact messages to appear in a particular font and color.
· Full emoticon support, featuring a custom GPLed emoticon set and the ability to use different emoticon themes.
· File transfer support, both sending and receiving.
· Picture transfer support.
· Hotmail support, with new email notifications, the inbox count, and the ability to open Hotmail at the user's inbox or at the composition page.
· The ability to disable and hide email information for accounts that don't use Hotmail.
· Support for multiple user profiles.
· Autologging, either at the setting page for from the commandline (with "kmess --autologin blah@hotmail.com" for example).
· A contact list that can organize contacts by group or by online/offline status.
· Groups show a count of the contacts online (i.e. "Friends (2/5)")
· The user can specify particular contact images and sounds to be displayed when a contact comes online or in a chat.
· The user can specify a name for a contact, overriding the contact's specified name.
· The user can choose on a contact-by-contact basis whether the user should be notified when a particular contact comes online or goes offline.
· KMess can show a contact's MSN profile, and open the MSN search pages.
· In addition to the usual user statuses of "Away" and "Busy" and so on, there is the status "Away with Autoreply" that will reply to contact's chat messages with a user-specified away message.
· The chat window has been redesigned with a new sidebar (which can be toggled with Ctrl+T) with an emphasis on contact images.
· The chat window notifies the user that a contact is typing by "glowing" the contact's image.
· Chats can be logged automatically and the chats ordered in subdirectories by day, week, or month, or not ordered at all.
· Chats can be configured to show timestamps when contacts send messages.
· A "compact" chat format can be used to remove extraneous line breaks and reduce the size of the chat.
· The chat window caption in the taskbar alternates between lower and upper case to inform the user of a received message when the window is not on top.
· Internationalization support, with translations in: English, Dutch, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Turkish, Chinese, French, Catalan, Arabic, Korean, Norsk, and Thai
· There is now a method, though not absolute, to tell if a contact is blocking you. If a chat is started with a contact that appears offline, you will be informed if the contact is offline or online and blocking you.
· NetMeetingGnomeMeeting and GnomeMeetingGnomeMeeting invitations are supported.
· Users can start as invisible rather than online.
· Users can have blank, unsaved passwords but retain user settings.
· Text can be formatted with /italic/, _underlined_, and *bold*.
· Groups can be reordered.
· You can show or hide offline contacts.
· Emoticons are shown in the contact list.
· Contacts can be dragged to move between groups and dragged into a chat to be invited to it.
· A background picture was added to the contact list.

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· Added tabs to the Contact Added User dialog.
· Added a fading effect when switching between the initial view and the contact list.
· Fixed login issues due to changes in the MSN protocol.
· Fixed possible crashes with the Contact Added User dialog.
· Fixed retrieval of display pictures from the online MSN storage.
· Various other smaller fixes...