I'm not sure how much desktop dependence Kopete, a KDE app, exhibits. I don't chat. My wife, however, who very much does, tells me that she uses Kopete on her Ubuntu 8.04 Gnome set-up because it facilitates bi-directional WebCam use (which Pidgin does not?) and supports all the commonly used instant messaging protocols such as Yahoo, AIM, ICQ, MSN, etc., etc. No voice support though. Pax, ~rc ?Everything is futile but we must do it anyway.? --Gandhi
