Thanks for your kind words everybody, I didn't think it would get any interest :-)
@Warrent
Not quite sure when the final version will be released but I'm at a point where beta release are going to be put out soon.
As for other I.M, yeah, this version will initially have support for AOL/AIM and MSN. Whats the other one? ICQ? Well I think StrICQ is a good enough client so no point in adding that. I only wrote this because there was either no support for a protocol or if there was the interface was butt-ugly.
Proxy support shouldn't be too hard.
Anyone wanting to be beta test please send an email to:
messenger@thesnakepit.demon.co.uk
Thanks!!