I forgot to mention one thing about Chat Window topic.There is a topic at Kopete board on kde-artists.org about Improving Chat Window:
Kopete board at kde-artists.org (link no longer work)
Here you can post your thoughs and ideas too about Chat Window.

In other news, Adium format style preview works in Appearance config For those who found my screenshot too bloated in the previous entry, that’s because I’m using a bloated Chat Window Style, there are minimalist themes and also there are easy to develop, it’s just XHTML file template plus CSS files.

Heh, this is a long time since I blogged. I’m very busy with school and social life on these days. But I found time to work on something nice for Kopete.

For KDE4 I wanted to give a new look and code to the Kopete Chat Window. I discussed on IRC about that, and a conclusion came that we needed to dump XSLT style engine in favor of something else better. Johann pointed me to Adium chat window style themes and I felt in love with all those themes

And I couldn’t resist and Johann convinced me, then I’m doing it right now in Kopete 0.12 development branch.

See the result(using Metal Chat 2 theme with Blue & Red (No Header) variant)

I just finished the initial GUI configuration and there is already 2 new themes using Adium format in SVN. If you are interessed to try it out, see this status wiki page of XHTML+CSS engine of Kopete:
http://wiki.kde.org/tiki-index.php?page=Kopete+XHTML%2BCSS

There is also Conrad Hoffmann who is working on a new chatwindow GUI:
http://conrausch.elise.no-ip.com/kopete/chatwindow/
He has some good ideas and I’m looking forward to see his work commited in SVN
So that’s mean for KDE4, I will be able to concentrate on libkopete, Jabber/XMPP plugin and other things in Kopete.