After this you're taken to the main screen, which like the other applications is modeled very closely after the Windows version of the ICQ application. It all does exactly what you'd expect it to do, everything behaves appropriately. Use The first thing you need to do is to add users to your ICQ list. This window allows you to search the ICQ database to find specific ICQ numbers, nicknames, email addresses, or even real names. Names listed in red have been added to your contact list, but are not currently online.
Names listed in blue are online and available for comment.
All in all, PwICQ's primary interface works basically like the older ICQ clients do. Everything is laid out intelligently, and nothing seems particularly difficult to understand. Sending and receiving messages work acceptably well, but having a prolonged conversation with one person on PwICQ can get tiring because there's no way to keep the message window open, and you must use the mouse in order to send whatever message you've typed. In the latest versions of ICQ on the windows platform, it's possible to keep the message window open, like a mini-IRC terminal, so that a conversation can continue interrupted. In PwICQ, a message window opens temporarily when you're composing the message, and it closes when the message is sent.