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 for all of their instant messaging systems, but at the same
time also providing developers with the ease of writing plugins to support
new protocols.

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.