After a few years of being away, I've rediscovered the joy of KDE, and Kopete, thanks to
Kopete's OTR plugin, I can finally almost entirely rid myself of GNOME.
I do have one small issue, and it's a bit of an annoying one - it seels that Kopete was designed with the user list in mind. I have a rather full user list, and often I just need to fire off a 'single shot' message to someone I am working on a project with - however, I can't, unless I add them to my Contact List.
I've searched the Wiki, and browsed the docs, but I can not find a way to message someone without them being added to my contacts. Please tell me that even if this is by design, there's some way I can tickle it into working.
Cheers for enhancing the KDE experience!