Attached a screen shot of the gaim windows port. Gaim is a messenger like trillian that allow connecting to aim,msn, y!, etc. Anyways as you can see the buddylist has more of a ichat potential style (more so than trillian). Like the away msg in the buddylist, buddyicons in the buddylist, etc.. All it needs is a decent theme and itll be great. Anyways Im not a skinner and dont claim to be so all I can do is hope to get this viewed by the proper people that would wanna try it.
wrong subforum and tag but right idea 
ill look into it. if u can skin it like u can trillian, theres a good chance i can wip up an ichat skin. im at work now. so it will have to wait untill tomarow when i can dl it and see.
excellent, heres what I pulled off GAIM's site in reguards to it being skinable...
Native Windows look and feel - GTK is themable, which means that you can change colors, fonts and how the actual widgets are drawn. The Gaim installer, gives you the choice of installing one of 3 GTK+ themes. If you choose GTK-Wimp, Gaim will look and feel like a normal Windows application (including on XP). To switch back to no theme or to change the theme just run the Gaim installer again and pick a different theme. You can visit the gtk-wimp site at http://gtk-wimp.sf.net
I'm interested in the prospects of this too.
Unfortunately, I haven't been able to find anything to skin, besides switching around some icons. Gaim's customizability seems limited as far as the Windows platform goes.
Anyway, here's how mine turned out... Kinda fugly, but I'll find icons to replace the rest of the defaults.
Aqua-Soft Forums