There are already quite a few multi-protocol instant messenger clients; the telepathy stack is probably the most important, followed by pidgin. What does the qutim UI offer over empathy (telepathy client) and pidgin? What do the qutim protocol implementations offer over the ones in the telepathy stack and libpurple (used by pidgin and optionally in telepathy)? -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise