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Alternatives to Windows Live Messenger by xiaozhu on 08-04-2007 at 01:43 PM
Anyone know of any alternatives to Windows Live Messenger?
and has nice GUI?
aMsn has quite a bad GUI in my opinion.
RE: Alternatives to Windows Live Messenger by EBFL on 08-04-2007 at 03:19 PM
RE: Alternatives to Windows Live Messenger by MeEtc on 08-04-2007 at 03:41 PM
Trillian (http://www.ceruleanstudios.com/)
RE: Alternatives to Windows Live Messenger by Oxy on 08-04-2007 at 06:17 PM
My personal favourite: http://iloveim.com 
RE: Alternatives to Windows Live Messenger by Mimouna on 08-04-2007 at 07:37 PM
Maybe you should try Kopete if you have KDE as desktop environment.
It's already installed in KDE.
RE: Alternatives to Windows Live Messenger by joey on 08-05-2007 at 08:48 AM
i dont like kopete, its not very customizable, i would have to go with pidgin/[old]gaim, or amsn, but you're not liking that. still, i think you should wait until the next release or two before you really judge amsn, i find it really good, end they may not have the best looking GUI, AFAIK they're planning on making it better looking, and some of the skins are rather good too. not knock it! 
the only bad things are that it's a bit of a resource hog, and its sometimes dodgy if you update by svn, but thats it.
RE: Alternatives to Windows Live Messenger by absorbation on 08-05-2007 at 08:48 PM
Pidgin is well coded and I believe very modern. I would recommend that, but Trillian Astra (not yet released) looks like the best alternative 
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RE: Alternatives to Windows Live Messenger by Shiny Rabbit on 08-07-2007 at 06:48 PM
WLM8.5 beta? that looks very sexy.
RE: Alternatives to Windows Live Messenger by Zahid™ on 08-07-2007 at 06:50 PM
quote:WLM 8.5 is still Windows Live Messenger, he wanted an alternative to WLM.
Originally posted by Shiny Rabbit
WLM8.5 beta? that looks very sexy.
RE: Alternatives to Windows Live Messenger by Mimouna on 08-07-2007 at 07:32 PM
I just found something http://www.kmess.org/
It's for KDE I believe.