Freerunner Chat Application: Suggestions wanted!

[Sebastian Krzyszkowiak]

On 7/16/09, Alex Teiche <xelapond at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> I recently recieved my A6 FreeRunner, and have been looking for some coding
> to do:)  I plan on writing a chat application(similar to Pidgin) optomized
> for the small screen.  I was wondering what suggestions the community had
> before I get too far into it.
>
> What UI elements do you recommend I keep out front/put back in menus to save
> space?
> Which protocols have the highest demand for implementation?
> How should it deal with multiple concurrent chat sessions?
> How should the user be notified when a new chat message is recieved?
> Should logging be implemented?
> Any other ideas/suggestions?
>
> We all have our own opinions on these issues, so I just wanted a sense of
> what the greater community thought.
>
> ~xelapond
>

Please use elementary and telepathy, with priority on Jabber/XMPP.
That's all of my requirements :)