Default behaviour mode for opening new chats has changed It was in tabs, it is now in new windows. This was not a deliberate change. To test wipe your ~/.kde/share/config/ktelepathyrc file
Could someone fix this in the 0.6 branch ASAP.
Git commit 8a2a35921595429c9c3a17a29835c7c20e4f750c by Dominik Cermak. Committed on 01/04/2013 at 15:42. Pushed by cermak into branch 'kde-telepathy-0.6'. Restore default mode for opening new conversations It used to be in tabs but somehow changed to new windos. This restores the default to tabs. FIXED-IN: 0.6.0 M +1 -1 lib/text-chat-config.cpp http://commits.kde.org/telepathy-text-ui/8a2a35921595429c9c3a17a29835c7c20e4f750c