KMess

KMess is a free instant messaging client for GNU / Linux . It is a clone of MSN Messenger. The advantage of KMess lies in its integration with the KDE desktop environment , focused on specific features of MSN Messenger and an easy-to-use interface.

Summary

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• 1 Features
• 2 KMess interface
• 3 Additional KMess Features
• 4 KMess: Client for Windows Live Messenger on Linux
• 5 KMess 2.0.2
• 6 KMess 2.0.4 for Ubuntu
• 7 Requirements
• 8 MSN Messenger client for KDE
• 9 Sources

features

MSN Protocol Support

• Support for group chats with multiple contacts.
• File transfer, both sending and receiving.
• Image transfer.
• Full support for emoticons.
• Change of font and color.
• Show the contacts that don’t have you on their list.
• Inform if a contact is writing a message by flashing their contact image.
• Log in invisible instead of online.
• Hotmail support, with inbox counting, new email notifications, and the ability to open the Hotmail inbox .
• Shows MSN profiles of contacts, and opens MSN search pages.
• Invitation support between NetMeeting and GnomeMeeting .

KMess interface

• Show or hide offline contacts.
• It allows showing or hiding the special groups «allowed» and «deleted» to modify them from the contact list.
• Organize your contact list by groups or by online status.
• Groups show the number of online contacts (for example: “Friends (2/5)”).
• Sidebar in the chat window with an emphasis on contact images. In a group conversation, the different contacts will be displayed in the sidebar.
• Alteration and flashing in the taskbar to report a received message.
• A background image has been added to the contact list.
• Emoticons can also be displayed in the contact list.
• Internationalization, with translations into English, Dutch, German, Spanish and Chinese.

KMess additional features

• Shows timestamps when contacts send messages.
• Creation of a “compact” chat format to reduce the size of the window.
• Text can be formatted with * bold *, / italics / or _underline_.
• Ability to establish a particular font and color for each contact’s messages.
• Ability to display contacts with a particular name, instead of the contact’s own name.
• Manual assignment of images for contacts.
• Sound and pop-up notification settings for each contact.
• An “away with auto reply” status that will reply to contacts with a user specified away message.
• Groups can be reordered.
• Possibility of having multiple user profiles.
• A set of GPLed custom emoticons.
• Ability to use different emoticon themes.
• Chat log with full dialing.
• Chat logs can be sorted into subdirectories by day, week, or month.
• Automatic login, both in the configuration window and by command line

KMess: Client for Windows Live Messenger on Linux

In general, Linux users use Pidgin , aMSN or even emesene, thus naming the latter as the most similar alternative to WindowsLive Messenger for Linux. However, looking a bit in the Ubuntu Software Center, I was struck by KMess, an interesting client for Messenger, quite modern and with many compatibility options. KMess as such allows you to log in with any Windows Live account, and provides automatic compatibility for Messenger Plus, so there is no need to install any additional extension for those who use scripts that change their nickname color. Also, I had the opportunity to test it for a while and apparently it does not consume as many resources as the others, so I have left it as the default Windows Live Messenger client. The interesting thing is that, unlike Pidgin, which was deconfigured when we logged into Windows Live Messenger again and all the contacts we blocked were unblocked again,

The strange thing happens at the beginning of the program, which begins to ask us if we want to admit some contacts of which we had already added a long time ago, so until they are all configured, the warning messages will not stop coming out, although the same Well that’s a matter of a couple of minutes, but without a doubt, KMess is an excellent client for Windows Live Messenger on Linux.

KMess 2.0.2

A new version of this MSN client for KDE has just been released. It is the best instant messaging client if you are going to use this type of protocol. Of course, with Kopete and KMess, Gnome’s Pidgin and Empathy seem like toys. These are the new features compared to version 2.0.0.

• Fixed a bug, which appeared in version 2.0.1, which prevented logging in twice in the same KMess session.
• Updated Japanese translation.
• Portuguese translation updated.
• Added full handwriting support, using the new ISF-Qt library.
• Added roaming support for screen image, nickname and personal message.
• Added ability to drag and drop an image to a conversation, to send it.
• Added chat window buttons, to quickly change the text font and color.
• Added checkbox “Enter automatically” for main menu.
• Pixelated downscaling of still images in contact list
• Multiple notification issues have been fixed.
• The loss of nickname at login has been fixed.
• Some crashes and memory leaks have been fixed.
• Improved emoticon settings.
• The transfer window now appears in the background instead of minimized.
• The minimum size of the message editor is now one line of text.
• Other changes and fixes

KMess 2.0.4 for Ubuntu

Contact window

Windows Live Messenger KMess is a free and open source instant messaging client with which you can chat with your friends on the Windows Live Messenger network as if you were doing it with the official Microsoft client . It has support for avatar, file transfer, icons and winks, as well as the possibility of adding other personalized ones; buzzing, offline conversations and email notifications. We can also customize the color and style of our messages.

All this makes KMess an application to take into account.

Requirements

Distribution: Ubuntu 10.10

Repository: Universe

Architecture: i386

MSN Messenger client for KDE

Window showing List of contacts by connection

KMess is a clone of MSN Messenger for the KDE environment .

Among its functions we highlight:

• Possibility of displaying the list of contacts by connection or by categories
• Support for emoticons in chats
• Support change font and color in chats
• Notification of mail arrival
• Using multiple accounts
• Autologin

In short, a highly recommended instant messaging client for those who already use the third version of the KDE environment for Linux .