Trillian blows my toes. It's awful, I hated using it when I tried it out. For one, it lacks features that the other messenger programs have. I don't know how many times I was on aim talking to someone, tried to direct connect to show them a picture, and they say "hold on, I'm on trillian, let me get on aim" X_X;
I just use aim and icq.. although I probably wouldn't use icq if it weren't for unixmad and others that only use that messenger. Anyone that uses yahoo messenger is retarded, as it's nothing but pedophiles messaging you to cyber, and I barely know anyone that uses it.
The only problem I see with having this "GIMP" is that it's going to just be yet another program I need to run. I don't just use aim and icq to talk with people on Graal, so then I would need to be running icq, aim, AND gimp. Which might just be a big pain in the butt.
What if I want to talk with non-graal people on aim and icq, play graal, and also talk with graal people that don't play graal (gimp). I would be running four different ways of chatting. That's getting a little overboard really. Surely if there was a graal instant messenger made, it would be licensed by Graal, meaning it probably wouldn't be free to use, since it's running off their servers.
I highly doubt stefan/unixmad would give some random person access to the account info on the server to tie in with a 3rd party messenger program. Stefan could easily make one with existing Graal code. (just taking graal's pm system and making it a seperate exe)