Description:

Kopete is a flexible and extendable multiple protocol instant
messaging system designed as a plugin-based system. All protocols are
plugins and allow modular installment, configuration, and usage
without the main application knowing anything about the plugin being
loaded. The goal of Kopete is to provide users with a standard and
easy to use interface between all of their instant messaging systems,
but at the same time also providing developers with the ease of
writing plugins to support a new protocol. The core Kopete development
team provides a handful of plugins that most users can use, in
addition to templates for new developers to base a plugin off of.