QutIM

qutIM (the name is produced as homophone of the "Cute IM") is a cross-platform open source multi-protocol client, licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License. Project began in January 2008 and is under active development. Main goal was to create fast and user friendly ICQ client. Nowadays qutIM provides powerful plugin system for developers, so that it can support any IM-protocol. Currently ICQ, XMPP, , VKontakte.ru, Twitter and IRC protocols are developed.
The program is written in with Qt 4.4. There are official builds for Windows, Mac OS X, Debian GNU/Linux and unofficial for many other platforms: SUSE Linux, Mandriva Linux and others.
28 November 2009 project changed control version system from SVN to Git, sources are avaiable at gitorious.org now.
Features
* X-statuses (ICQ protocol ability)
* Tabbed and windowed messaging modes
* Anti-spam filter
* Multiple accounts
* Internationalization support
* File transfers
* HTTP and SOCKS 5 support
* Avatar support
* Adium status icons and animation smiles support
* Adium styles for chat window
* Styles for contact list, theme border
* Sound notifications support
* Message delivery notification support
* Conferences support
* Plugin support
Forks
* — fork of qutIM, differs by quickness and simplicity. The great deal of features has been excluded, not directly connected with receiving or sending messages, such as: emoticons, sending/receiving files, sending typing notifications (receiving has been kept), localizations, not-tab mode of chat window. The fork doesn't suppose appearance supporting of plugin system and multiprotocoling.
At 23 May 2009 project was closed

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