KMess

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Chat med dine MSN Messenger- og Live Messenger-venner

Om KMess

KMess is a Linux chat client alternative to Live/MSN Messenger. It allows Linux users to chat with friends who use MSN Messenger or Live Messenger in Windows or Mac OS. The strength of KMess is its integration with the KDE Plasma workspaces, its focus on Messenger specific features and an easy-to-use interface.

	Homepage		http://www.kmess.org
	Forum		http://www.kmess.org/board

Features

KMess is currently at version 2.0.4, which is packed full of features – here are some of them:

Display picture transfers
Fast file transfers
Tabbed chatting (multiple chats in a single window)
Custom emoticons, winks and nudges
Offline and invisible messaging
Rich and colorful chat styles and logs
Chat logs history viewer
Messenger Plus Live's text coloring and formatting
A lot of options to customize the contact list appearance
Live Mail e-mail notifications
Ability to disable annoying received emoticons
Contact list searching
Much more...

Preview

To get a quick idea of what is it, you can have a look at our visual guide!

Getting it

You can usually get KMess by downloading a package for your distribution: check in your own package manager if KMess 2.0.4 is already present! If not, you can look on the kmess.org downloads page to learn more. Kubuntu 9.10 includes KMess 2.0, Kubuntu 10.04 includes KMess 2.0.3 and openSUSE 11.3 also includes KMess 2.0.4

Versions

	KDE SC 4.x		2.0.4
	KDE3		1.5.2