Hi all, is there KDE/QT alternative to Kopete
I'm not really fond of it, and I can't seem to manage to make it work as I like it.

Nothing exists with Kopete's swiss army knife of protocols unfortunately. Which protocols are you trying to use? Psi works for Jabber, and KMess for MSN.

Here's a Qt alternative: http://www.qutim.org/
IRC, ICQ, Jabber (and maybe some other)

Thanks JanGerrit, looks pretty nice but it doesn't yet have msn or yahoo.
Any other tips ?

in qutim you can add msn support. no yahoo at today

What are you trying to make it do? Perhaps that's something that we can look at adding if there's not a way to do it already.

If it's a reply to me, well I'm just trying to make it be simpler and emulate a bit the behaviour of new messages from pidgin.

You can use gateways to some protocols (MSN, Yahoo, etc.) in certain Jabber servers. I use Psi that way and chat with my MSN contacts.

qutim 0.3 (https://gitorious.org/qutim) (http://qutim.org/download) supports the library libpurple, and therefore all its protocols, including msn and yoohu. For all questions can contact the jabber conference talks@conference.qutim.org

QutIM looks intriguing. I've been hoping for an alternative to Kopete to appear for a long time now, but I'm having a difficult time finding rpms available for Fedora or at least source code.

Fedora rpms for QutIM http://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/searc ... uery=QutIM

Another alternative is QuteCom.

google01103 wrote:Fedora rpms for QutIM http://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/searc ... uery=QutIM

Thanks! Unfortunately, those are .2 rpms. What I liked about the screenshot of .3 was that it uses stock KDE icons instead of its own custom theme.