Funny. Dave Cridland did the logo for Swift. Is this the same Dave who is the current project lead for Openfire? Never saw this client, checking it out. Looked similar to Instantbird at first, but it is different and uses Qt, hm. Clean, minimalistic style (almost too minimalistic, i get nervous if there is no Preferences/Settings menu ).
Anyway, i don't know what features did Stephen was looking about in the Group Chat part, but i think even 10 years ago, when i was investigating different clients for my first xmpp server i think most of them did it quite similarly. The only difference was how they presented roles. Some where using different icons, some not. Btw, Spark is still lacking in this front - [SPARK-1106] Add more options for admin/owner user in MUC room - Jive Software Open Source.
Btw, though i'm involved in this community for some time, file bugs or test things, but i'm not a developer myself and i don't feel this is mine software CSH actually did some real development, as many other guys who come at some point and do patches or stuff. I think nobody can call this their software. It's open source, it's everyone's
