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.

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