Thanks again to 'special', Conversations will be having its first release sometime this week, some screenshots (note that these are really being used, not just mockups anymore):









Now, a little about what Conversations is... It's an IM application, using Telepathy for the messaging part.

Out of the box, it should support Jabber, possibly Facebook, etc, etc. It's the same plumbing as what the N9 (and N900, and other Maemo devices) use under the hood.

With some work, it should also be able to support SMS (thanks to telepathy-ring), but that's not done yet. What also hasn't been done (yet) is to provide a way to easily configure accounts, set them online, etc. You'll need to do that via a command line tool called 'mc-tool'.

All in all, this is very much 0.0.1-style stuff at the moment, fairly basic in terms of functionality etc, so don't expect everything to just work™, but it's some more very promising progress! I'll be trying to help get the first release pushed to OBS (and Nemo) in the next day or so.

I've also nagged special to come post in this thread, so if you have any questions, feel free to ask, and hopefully he'll be able to help.