Shoutbox

I like the looks of that. I do think as well that that the lighter look is nice compared to WLM, but when I think about it, there is not *that* much difference in WLM. Remove the search bar, tabs and some of the icons  and you get a pretty light looking messenger. Hopefully you can at some point choose which icons you want to see on the main window and message window, which would leave the "unwanted" features accessible from the menu.