MDC - universal multiprotocol messenger

Company NetStream Writing for the convenience of our new multi-protocol communication and multi-platform communication manager - MDC. Now I'll walk him to pieces, trying to figure out which of them sugar.

The first thing that came to mind after installation - again and Qt pidginopohozhest. Apparently it affects all multiplatform messengers, trying to please and ours, and yours (Windows, Linux, MacOS). However, in addition to the standard interface, which gives us the use of the Qt, developers have prepared some tasty chips and good visual function gimmicks. The chip is the first - displaying contacts. contact status displays vertical colored strip that seemed beautiful and unusual.

In addition, the contacts view, you can switch to a shorter, saving space on the screen. minimalist lovers.

The chip is the second - the union contacts. Of course, anyone familiar with Miranda IM, long known and used meta-contacts, the rest of the developers propose to use it actively. The bottom line is this: if you have, say, Vasily Pupkin, which has both ICQ to, and Jabber, Gtalk and, these three pins can be combined into one, with a common history.

The chip is the third - to keep a history on the server. This I think is the most convenient innovation that so far there is only Gtalk and Meebo. Now, no matter where you are communicating, both at home and at work, you will have the same message history. This feature can be enabled or disabled in the options, as well as further data encryption assumed.

The message window is very standard, somewhat like QIP, supposedly implemented in Linux.

Now the MDC supports ICQ, AOL, Mail. Agent, Jabber, Gtalk, Ya.Online, and in the short beta - MSN support. The developers also promise a gradual expansion of supported networks. About the platform - now in beta MDC only for Microsoft Windows (2000 / XP / Vista, 32-bit), but the near future promise to the version for Linux (32/64) and Mac OS X (Intel), and after a month and a half will access the web version MDC. In general, the program left behind mixed feelings. On the one hand there is a very useful function, to which up to now have not guessed giants such as MSN, ICQ, such as storage history messages on the server, and meta-contacts, on the other hand - an ordinary interface of windows messages, suffering obvious anachronism and imitation. So far, the program is distributed through InvitesBut soon and promise public version with new skins. But, honestly, I was more impressed Xeus IM.