Sunday, July 27. 2008KMess 2.0 progress, personal stuffWith this blog entry I'd like to inform you all about the amazing progress we're making with KMess 2.0. It's been a bit quiet on the blogging side, but development surely didn't stop. The development timeline at trac.kmess.org reveals there are 200 commits within the last 30 days. Within a few days we hope to release a 2.0-alpha 2 release, which has the following new features:
We stil have our share of things we like to improve, implement and annoyances to fix, so the upcoming release will still be called an alpha. Most of the work on KMess 2 has been done by Valerio and Antonio, so I like to thank them for this as well! This is how KMess 2 look like now:
In the screenshot you see the ink receiving and tabbed chat in action. KMess on WindowsThere is experimental support for Windows as well:
There is no "setup.exe" yet to double-click on, but a lengthy manual of steps to install. Hence the reason we still call it experimental. Everything seams to work though. Personal stuffI didn't always find time to work on KMess in the past few months. If you have a daily job as web developer, not all evenings are easily spent on coding as well. After the summer holidays I'll also be moving to to my very own appartment (maisonette actually). It has a small balcony, 3 bedrooms and a view to a lovely park in front, which I really love. Some work needs to be done before I can move in, like installing new kitchen and installing central heating. Guess you'll know what I'll be doing this autumn. Oh and:
So if you see a guy coding for KMess on a white MacBook running KDE on Windows, it's probably me Trackbacks
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Thank you for your warm feedback!
This really keeps up the motivation. 
Why don't you just help with improving Kopete?
That would be more sensible, IMO.
> Why don't you just help with improving Kopete?
> That would be more sensible, IMO. I filed some Kopete bugs in the past, but that didn't work out for me. I loved KMess for both it's design and code as developer, but it's simplicity and user interface as a user. Without KMess, I'd probably wouldn't be in KDE development at all. Other then that, I'd let the enthusiastic reactions here speak for themselves, for which I'm really grateful. That said, our work could benefit Kopete as well. We have plans for a Qt library based on KMess code (and see where Decibel fits in). The code works, is proven, and tested by many different users. It's not our top priority to work towards a library - and I'm careful not to kill KMess in the progress of it - but it's on the todo list for 2.1.
Reeeeaaally nice job. Congrats to the KMess team!!!
"KMess on a white MacBook running KDE on Windows". Well, elephants cannot fly; but penguins can definitely swim, walk and now even fly!
I am really happy that you keep development active on kmess. I love the simplicity of it. It really has a stand alone place with other apps like kopete etc. It deliveres a much better UI then the rest. It has been my no 1 choice of msn app for some quite time not.
thanks again and keep up the good work!
I recently migrated my sister's computer to GNU/Linux and I chose KDE (of course) for her migration.
She had been using aMSN and Emesene in Windows and even though both are great apps they are not QT (and QT is awesome, haha). I'm going to tell her to try KMess, but from what I can see here she's probably going to like it (and she's pretty demanding of her apps). Thank you for the sweet new features and keep up the good work.
Hey, good job.
please implement videoconference (video and sound) Thanks Cris
@Cristian:
We're working on it, I love to have webcam support as well. @Diego, Steven, leo_rockway: Thank you for your encouragements, this really makes me happy and it's very encouraging!
Hi,
Will a release with webcam support be ready for when KDE 4.1 is released, or at the latest when the next kubuntu version is released (This is when I plan to make the switch to from KDE 3.5 to 4.1 for my everyday use)? The missing webcam support is the only reason I use Kopete. I started using KMess because it's file transfers were better than kopete.
It would indeed be nice if we're done before the next KUbuntu release (30 Oktober - days needed to package and test this release).
Webcam support will be available in the final 2.0 release, but I won't promise a specific date. When everything is done and stable, it will be released. We want to make sure 2.0 is really good, not rushed out.
Video and sound will be amazing. Goodness knows pidgin is taking too long.
That would make Kmess an instant screw-the-RAM-usage-i'm-using-this-in-gnome app, right alongside amarok and several KDE4 games
"So if you see a guy coding for KMess on a white MacBook running KDE on Windows, it's probably me"
So that's what Apple means when they say "Think Different" 
Hi, I Love Kmess xD..
Congratulations on this excellent application, quick and easy novel. Greetings from venezuela. Sorry for mi Bad English ^^
No news from the developers for a long time. Isn't it time to release alpha 3 or beta 1 and/or blog some more?
Regards, Diego
Definitely!
There is a lot of work going on (see http://trac.kmess.org/timeline for the things we've done the last month), and I like to make it visible for more people too.Currently I'm quite busy moving with my new appartment, which is why I've been a bit silent. But I'll try to post an update.
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I still do a lot of things in the background, and I'm slowly starting to pick up coding again. I'm working through the first parts to receive webcam sessions, and you can expect this to be present in KMess too.
