Hi, Thanks to everyone who answered and also those who answered in private. I'll try to recap the answers in case someone in interested. Kopete : is a KDE client(http://www.kopete.org/) looks nice and simple so far to me, but I've only used it for 2 hours yet. Gaim : http://gaim.sourceforge.net/ is a Gnome client (15 minutes usage so far) PSI : http://psi.affinix.com/, a Jabber client which is cross-platform (QT) and interoperates with AOL, Yahoo, MSN, etc Gabber : tbc Jabber : tbc GnomeCU : tbc All the clients who were suggested to me apparently "talk" nicely with ICQ, Yahoo Msgr, MSN Msgr, IRC, Jabber and more. I havent tried them all (yet) but I suspect the end decision is on how one personally feels about the GUI of the different candidates and perhaps whether one prefers KDE or Gnome. Thanks again Serge ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Serge Marelli, Luxembourg E-mail : serge.marelli(a)linux.lu ---------------------------------------------------------------------- LiLux - http://www.lilux.lu/ Defending Innovation against Patent Inflation http://swpat.ffii.org/ Free Software Foundation - http//www.fsf.org/