KMess 1.5-pre2

KMess program is a MSN messenger for KDE.
Main features:
- 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 users inbox or at the composition page.
- The ability to disable and hide email information for accounts that dont 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 contacts 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 contacts 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 contacts 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 contacts 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.
- NetMeeting<->GnomeMeeting and GnomeMeeting<->GnomeMeeting 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.
Enhancements:
- This release fixes some critical issues in 1.5-pre1.
- The most important bugfixes are better support for direct file transfer connections and links in the chat window.
- There are also some nice improvements, like file transfer previews and "now playing" information.
- The chat window has some new features.
- Writing links as slashdot.org or dot.kde.org works as well.
- Its possible to disable the shaking effect of a nudge.