ICQ Features

  • Contact List - fully functionning online/offline user list with pixmaps and everything.
  • Messages - send and receive messages both online and offline through the server. Send in color too.
  • Chat - chat with other users in regular and multiparty mode, set/see colors/fonts and save chat session.
  • File transfer - batch transfer files to and from other icq users.
  • URL - send and receive URL's from other users.
  • Status - set status to any of the available ones, set and retrieve away message.
  • User info - retrieve and update all user and personal information.
  • Whitepages - full support for General/More/Work/About info as well as searches based on this info.
  • History - keeps a log of all messages to and from a user.
  • Add/remove and edit user information from within the program.
  • Invisible list - be invisible to some users all the time.
  • Visible list - be visible to some users when you are in invisible mode.
  • Online user notification - have a sound played when a specific user goes online
  • Last seen online - shows the last time you've seen this user online
  • Local time - displays the local time for the user
  • Away-to-User - be a different status to particular users
  • Accept-in-Away - automatically accept events from certain users in certain statuses
  • Send contact lists - send a list of users to other users
  • Search - full support for searching by email/uin/alias/whitepages
  • Random chat - find random users (and be found)
  • Server stored contacts - keep your groups and users stored on the server
  • Typing notification - see when the remot use is typing a message to you
  • Phone book - keep track of users phone numbers, and yours
  • User pictures - see the picture of the user, if they have one available
  • Proxy support - HTTPS proxy support to connect through a proxy server

New Features

  • Web Interface
  • User groups - organize your users into groups.
  • Network monitor window - allows you to see the actual data being sent and received from mirabilis and other users.
  • Themed Docking - dock Licq using one of many different icon themes
  • Skin and icon pack support to make the qt-gui look like anything including transparent contact list
  • Customizable - allows full customization of colors, fonts, sizes and pixmaps for the contact list.
  • FIFO support for remotely controlling your licq session
  • Extensive utility support to add many new features.
  • Extensible OnEvent system for playing sounds or running programs when messages arrive, passing user specific information as arguments.
  • Plugin system allows for multiple possible GUIs, protocols, and other things.
  • International support with Unicode and translations
  • Fully multi-threaded for faster response and fewer slowdowns.
  • User floaty windows
  • Send urgent or to contact list with a single click
  • Always use the correct ip even if hostname is not set correctly
  • Option to flash all or just urgent incoming events
  • Accept modes for when to use OnEvents
  • Auto-raise and auto-popup incoming messages
  • Per-user customized auto responses
  • Statistics of how many messages you have sent & received and more
  • Tabbed chatting
  • SSL secure client to client connections
  • GPG encrypted messages